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Topic: New features required!

Posted By: spider975
Subject: New features required!
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 2:46pm

Hi Borg,

in next release, can you add Automatic send newsletter features?

It would be very really helpful, when you want to send a newsletter on automatically at night!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 5:30pm

This would be great, but one limitation of ASP is that you can not schedule an ASP file to run. This means that such an option is not possible.

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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 6:40pm

Would you be able to schedule a Windows task to call an ASP file which, when called, sends the newsletter to the pre-selected recipients? Obviously you'd need direct access onto the server to do this.

Posted By: spider975
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 7:02pm

Mortioli, I have access onto server, but how i can send the newsletter with pre-selected recipients?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 8:24pm

You can't use a schedule task to call an ASP file, as it needs to run through a web server and be called using HTTP through the server.

I have seen it done using a schedule task to call a batch file which in turn called a Windows Script Host file, which then used a WinHttp object to call the ASP file.

As you can imagine it was a bit of a hit and miss hack, but the only way I have ever seen to do this.

You would need to find someway to build some type of security into it, so that a hacker couldn't just call the file and sendout the newsletter at the wrong time. I'd imagine this with the method above would be quite difficult to implement.

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Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 08 November 2007 at 8:35pm

How about an SQL DTS to call the page etc? That way it could be used on shared hosting? I'm just throwing ideas into the wind...

I agree about the hacker calling the file. I suppose once the newsletter is generated, a randomly named ASP file could be created, which would launch the newsletter - ie; 153aAd1s3aafKOP.asp

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 8:47am

To create a randomly generated file you need to have write permissions on the server, which many people disabled for security reasons.

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Posted By: spider975
Date Posted: 09 November 2007 at 8:52am

I have full control on the server!

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