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Email Blaster
written by Gary Stein (gary@mactivity.com)
(c) Mactivity, Inc. 1996
Email Blaster is a little AppleScript that we developed to help us send out a
electronic newsletter to a long list of email addresses. Here's how to use it:
Step #1: Write the message that you want to send out in SimpleText.
Step #2: Create a text file of email addresses where each address is on its own
line (most databases or spreadsheets can export data like this).
Step #3: Drag the email address file onto the Email Blaster icon. You can drag
multiple email files. Email Blaster will take care of all of them.
Step #4: Answer the questions it asks. The first will be to locate the file
that contains the message you want to send out. The second will be for
the Subject of the message (actually, the first time you run this, it
will probably also ask you to locate Eudora). The last will be whether
you want to send each email as it is created, or just to queue them up
in your out box. If you are on a dial-up connection, or just a slow
connection to your mail server, you may want to just have the emails
queued up. When Email Blaster is done, you will need to connect up and
send the emails yourself.
Step #5: Sit back and watch Eudora do its thing. Emails will be created, placed
in the out box, then sent (if you chose "send"; if not, they will
just be placed in the out box). The script also checks each email address,
and will disregard any address that have a space in them or don't contain
an "@" symbol. When the script is done, you'll get a count of how many
addresses were bad, and how many total emails were sent. This script works
fine in the background. On my IIci it was taking about 5 seconds per message.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT MEMORY!
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Email Blaster was made to handle long email lists (about 7800 addresses). The
script works by reading in all of the addresses into a single variable. In
order to do this without running out of memory, you'll need to boost the memory
partition for Email Blaster in the "Get Info" box. You may need to experiment a
little with the best size for you.
REMEMBER:
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You have to have Apple's AppleScript System installed to have this thing work.
In addition to the AppleScript Extension, Email Blaster also uses the following
Scripting Additions:
Read/Write
Display Dialog
Choose File
These are all part of the standard AppleScript release (like the one with
System 7.5).
Disclaimer:
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Mactivity, Inc. makes no guarantees for the use of this software. It has been
tested on our site and has proven to work. Your results may be different.
Mactivity, Inc. does not support this software, although problems can be
emailed directly to Gary Stein (gary@mactivity.com).