You say that you 'absolutely shudder at the thought of importing a few
hundred e-mail address into this packaging just sitting as bait for the
next worm.'
Import from where?
What I would do, is keep these addresses on a platform where Worms and
the like usually don't go, like the HP3000. Also, I'd put them in a
simple, reliable, and powerful, secure database like Image. Then I'd
write a little brain-dead (COBOL) program that reads in these addresses,
and makes use a freeware program like MAILNM to send out your messages,
one at a time to each address.
Just my $0.02,
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Michael Anderson
Spring Independent School District
16717 Ella Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77090-4299
office: 281.586.1105
fax: 281.586.1187
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>>> Evan Vaala <[log in to unmask]> 10/30/02 09:19AM >>>
Looking for advice from the group.
I am helping out the principal of my childrens school in distributing
weekly newsletters via pre-registered e-mails. They currently are
using
Outlook Express as their e-mail package, and I absolutely shudder at
the
thought of importing a few hundred e-mail address into this packaging
just
sitting as bait for the next worm.
I've always used Netscape Messenger myself, but I still would not be
comfortable with that as a mechanism for mass distribution.
Might Eudora or Pegasus be some good, safe, easy to use,
possibilities?
Any others?
Thanks for any advice.
Evan Vaala
Rockwell Automation
By the way, I used Jakarta's James project for registering e-mails.
Worked
very well with it's customizable "mailets" working as an smtp
receiver.
Students parents were given a unique key that they put in the subject
line
of an e-mail that they then sent to the James smtp receiver. James
pareses
out all the fields into a "Mail" object that it then passes into a
Mailet
that you create/inherit. In the Mailet code I authenticate the key
pulled
from the subject line. If valid, it is registered into db.
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