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emailing a report or Word mail merge
Hey there! I've been thumbing around with this problem for so long I have
completely lost the plot. Yes, I know this is an FAQ but I'd appreciate some help on the architechture as well as the coding of this. I have an Access DB that has a table of new clients. Each client get a welcome letter emailed to them, and their email addys are housed in the table of new clients. It's a one page letter. What I want is for each client to get their one page letter in the body of an email, not as an attachment. I can think of maybe half a dozen ways to do this. But if this were your project, would you execute it from Access, Word, or Outlook? Yes, this is an all Microsoft environment. The user who performs this task will be logged into the group mailbox and that email account alone, so the correct return address will be the default setting. Thanks in advance! |
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emailing a report or Word mail merge
Hi check this out
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/email.htm -- Wayne Manchester, England. "rebeccax" wrote: Hey there! I've been thumbing around with this problem for so long I have completely lost the plot. Yes, I know this is an FAQ but I'd appreciate some help on the architechture as well as the coding of this. I have an Access DB that has a table of new clients. Each client get a welcome letter emailed to them, and their email addys are housed in the table of new clients. It's a one page letter. What I want is for each client to get their one page letter in the body of an email, not as an attachment. I can think of maybe half a dozen ways to do this. But if this were your project, would you execute it from Access, Word, or Outlook? Yes, this is an all Microsoft environment. The user who performs this task will be logged into the group mailbox and that email account alone, so the correct return address will be the default setting. Thanks in advance! |
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Simple way is to hard code the building of the body of the email and then
send it using your favorite email program. Have code loop thru the recordset of clients. Beter way is to build an email template system where you can build re-usable email templates and then use them to send customized emails. Use HTML formatted emails if you want things to look really good, however more difficult to build the template. Save history of emails sent out etc... or use a service that does this for you like constant contact. More benefits such as bounce rates etc.... Execute from Access (since that's where the client data and email live). or export from access and use service. Here's one I built: http://www.rptsoftware.com/products/email/ Be warned that large amounts of emailing can cause issues with your isp etc.... HTH, Mark Andrews RPT Software http://www.rptsoftware.com http://www.donationmanagementsoftware.com "rebeccax" wrote in message ... Hey there! I've been thumbing around with this problem for so long I have completely lost the plot. Yes, I know this is an FAQ but I'd appreciate some help on the architechture as well as the coding of this. I have an Access DB that has a table of new clients. Each client get a welcome letter emailed to them, and their email addys are housed in the table of new clients. It's a one page letter. What I want is for each client to get their one page letter in the body of an email, not as an attachment. I can think of maybe half a dozen ways to do this. But if this were your project, would you execute it from Access, Word, or Outlook? Yes, this is an all Microsoft environment. The user who performs this task will be logged into the group mailbox and that email account alone, so the correct return address will be the default setting. Thanks in advance! |
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I would do it in Access, because Access is my standard
platform, and my Access database already has a lot of forms and code. I guess my second choice would be Word, to make it easier for the users to maintain, and my third choice would be Outlook, because relatively few people have much VBA in Outlook. But if I was going to do it in Word, I would wonder why I was bothering with a database at all. I'd probably put the database into Excel if I was just going to use it only as source for a mail merge. (david) "rebeccax" wrote in message ... Hey there! I've been thumbing around with this problem for so long I have completely lost the plot. Yes, I know this is an FAQ but I'd appreciate some help on the architechture as well as the coding of this. I have an Access DB that has a table of new clients. Each client get a welcome letter emailed to them, and their email addys are housed in the table of new clients. It's a one page letter. What I want is for each client to get their one page letter in the body of an email, not as an attachment. I can think of maybe half a dozen ways to do this. But if this were your project, would you execute it from Access, Word, or Outlook? Yes, this is an all Microsoft environment. The user who performs this task will be logged into the group mailbox and that email account alone, so the correct return address will be the default setting. Thanks in advance! |
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Mark,
That is fly! Thanks for the inspiration. ~Rebecca "Mark Andrews" wrote: Simple way is to hard code the building of the body of the email and then send it using your favorite email program. Have code loop thru the recordset of clients. Beter way is to build an email template system where you can build re-usable email templates and then use them to send customized emails. Use HTML formatted emails if you want things to look really good, however more difficult to build the template. Save history of emails sent out etc... or use a service that does this for you like constant contact. More benefits such as bounce rates etc.... Execute from Access (since that's where the client data and email live). or export from access and use service. Here's one I built: http://www.rptsoftware.com/products/email/ Be warned that large amounts of emailing can cause issues with your isp etc.... HTH, Mark Andrews RPT Software http://www.rptsoftware.com http://www.donationmanagementsoftware.com "rebeccax" wrote in message ... Hey there! I've been thumbing around with this problem for so long I have completely lost the plot. Yes, I know this is an FAQ but I'd appreciate some help on the architechture as well as the coding of this. I have an Access DB that has a table of new clients. Each client get a welcome letter emailed to them, and their email addys are housed in the table of new clients. It's a one page letter. What I want is for each client to get their one page letter in the body of an email, not as an attachment. I can think of maybe half a dozen ways to do this. But if this were your project, would you execute it from Access, Word, or Outlook? Yes, this is an all Microsoft environment. The user who performs this task will be logged into the group mailbox and that email account alone, so the correct return address will be the default setting. Thanks in advance! . |
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