[thelist] Scheduled sending of email

[darren]

afternoon all,

i'm trying to find a way to only get email to be sent between certain
times using asp and the smtp service on iis5.

we have various emails that need to go out to about 6000 of our
customers.  some of these emails may be quite large and so we'd like to
schedule when they are actually sent to the end of the business day.  to
make things a little more complex, we have other emails that would need
to go out immediately, so i can't just block everything.

msdn suggests running a chron job that will run the script to generate
the emails or move the emails to the pickup directory, but this seems a
little kludgy.  also does anyone know if cdo for win2k can connect to a
mail server that isn't being pointed to in the smtp service on the same
machine??

thanks for any pointers,

happy thanksgiving to those celebrating...

darren.