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- Email Blaster
- written by Gary Stein (gary@mactivity.com)
- (c) Mactivity, Inc. 1996
-
-
- Email Blaster is a little AppleScript that we developed to help us send out a
- electronic newsletter to a long list of email addresses. Here's how to use it:
-
- Step #1: Write the message that you want to send out in SimpleText.
-
- Step #2: Create a text file of email addresses where each address is on its own
- line (most databases or spreadsheets can export data like this).
-
- Step #3: Drag the email address file onto the Email Blaster icon. You can drag
- multiple email files. Email Blaster will take care of all of them.
-
- Step #4: Answer the questions it asks. The first will be to locate the file
- that contains the message you want to send out. The second will be for
- the Subject of the message (actually, the first time you run this, it
- will probably also ask you to locate Eudora). The last will be whether
- you want to send each email as it is created, or just to queue them up
- in your out box. If you are on a dial-up connection, or just a slow
- connection to your mail server, you may want to just have the emails
- queued up. When Email Blaster is done, you will need to connect up and
- send the emails yourself.
-
- Step #5: Sit back and watch Eudora do its thing. Emails will be created, placed
- in the out box, then sent (if you chose "send"; if not, they will
- just be placed in the out box). The script also checks each email address,
- and will disregard any address that have a space in them or don't contain
- an "@" symbol. When the script is done, you'll get a count of how many
- addresses were bad, and how many total emails were sent. This script works
- fine in the background. On my IIci it was taking about 5 seconds per message.
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MEMORY!
- ----------------------------
- Email Blaster was made to handle long email lists (about 7800 addresses). The
- script works by reading in all of the addresses into a single variable. In
- order to do this without running out of memory, you'll need to boost the memory
- partition for Email Blaster in the "Get Info" box. You may need to experiment a
- little with the best size for you.
-
-
- REMEMBER:
- --------
- You have to have Apple's AppleScript System installed to have this thing work.
- In addition to the AppleScript Extension, Email Blaster also uses the following
- Scripting Additions:
-
- Read/Write
- Display Dialog
- Choose File
-
- These are all part of the standard AppleScript release (like the one with
- System 7.5).
-
-
- Disclaimer:
- ----------
- Mactivity, Inc. makes no guarantees for the use of this software. It has been
- tested on our site and has proven to work. Your results may be different.
- Mactivity, Inc. does not support this software, although problems can be
- emailed directly to Gary Stein (gary@mactivity.com).
-