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Posted: 24 January 2005 at 9:14am | IP Logged Quote Guests
Hi, our company is planing to enhance their application with massmailing ability. is the Message queue a must have or is it possible to start massmailing without it, because i dont#t want to run another service on customers Hardware.
with Massmailing i mean to send send mails up to 1000 pieces.

So far your component looks quite nice , and i´ve downloaded it so far to test it.
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Posted: 24 January 2005 at 9:16am | IP Logged Quote Guests
Sorry i forgot to ask whether it is possible to use your component under Access 97 .

Thank you and greetings out of the cold Germany
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Posted: 24 January 2005 at 9:39am | IP Logged Quote Alex
Yes, you can organize mass-mailing directly with MailBee.SMTP component. Message Queue is mainly intended for "fire-and-forget" delivery where response time of sending code is critical (for example, ASP page). However, in Windows app (such as MS Access one - MailBee is fully compatible with VBA, including MS Access), you can implement sending multiple messages as gradual process (with progress bars, cancel options, etc).

In your code, consider the followings things to be implemented:
- limit message sending rate (many mail servers have anti-abuse protection)
- limit number of sends per smtp connection (many servers also limit it)
- retry if sending failed becuase mail server is down (or switch to backup server)
- distinuish "server down" failure (which is server's temporary problem) from "invalid mail" failure (which would cause mail server to reject mail because of invalid recipients, too big size, etc)
- add logging to a file. It will allow you to detect if everything went fine with the mass send, and retry failed mails with another settings/server, etc.

Thanks and Regards,
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Posted: 24 January 2005 at 9:42am | IP Logged Quote Guests
Wow , thank your for your fast response !!! i'm impressed
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