E-mailing from filepro

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Richard Tartaglias <fp at masscollector.com>
> Subject: E-mailing from filepro
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> Please forgive me for not being more specific. The more things I know the dumber I get. I should have taken the time to spell out exactly what I wanted to do. 
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> I am running FilePro 5.0 on windows xp professional. 
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> I send bills for different cities and towns. People who wanted there bills by e-mail would have to write to me and request the e-mail bill prior to the billing. This information would be stored in FilePro. 
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> I then receive billing files from the cities and towns. The two files would be merged and the bills sent out. One of my communities sends 30,000 bills. I know not all would be by e-mail but the potential is there. 
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> Thanks 
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> Rich Tartaglia
> Deputy
On XP I use Blat (http://www.blat.net/).

Build a file with the contents of the e-mail you want (including HTML 
code if you so desire) and then use Blat with a SYSTEM command.  It 
takes about a second or two per e-mail so it's not the fastest.

I understand that you can also use cURL (http://curl.haxx.se/), but I 
haven't yet done any e-mailing with cURL.

Boaz