[thelist] Scheduled sending of email

[darren]

On 22 November 2001 at 15:26:11, Joel D Canfield <joel at spinhead.com> wrote:

JDC> Haven't tried this, but in the SMTP site settings, you can choose the
JDC> SMTP server by fully qualified domain name, so ostensibly you could
JDC> point to another server there. However, that would use the other machine
JDC> for all mail. Don't know if you could add another SMTP domain and choose
JDC> between the two. There's also the option for a smart host; if you've got
JDC> Exchange  or another mail server running, that can be used as well.

i've had a play around with cdo2 and you *can* specify a different server
from the one setup in the virtual smtp service, along with any
username/password combinations that you need.  which would pretty much
solve this problem.

JDC> What don't you like about the MSDN suggestion? Sounds like they're
JDC> recommending using the mailroot folder the way it was designed.

their method was to run a vbscript at a set time to generate the email.
this can be changed so that you write out the emails to one directory and
then run a script to move them.

i didn't like it 'cos it seems a bit kludgy to be running a script to
move files, when i was hoping for a more elegant method...something like,
if the message is high priority then send now, otherwise hold on to it
until midnight...too much of a dreamer! ;>

thanks for your help,

darren.