Re: [vps-mail] A suggestion for an announcement list

[Patrick Harris <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been using DadaMail (mojomail) for my technophobic  clients.  Been using it for a year and a half.   Works great and it's robust enough to handle lists in excess of 10,000 addresses.  

For plain text: Log in, type message, press send, done.  

The send a webpage function is a great way to do html based announce messages.  Then the client can use frontpage, dreamweaver, whatever for composing the messages and the simple html panel to transmit the formatted message.

Best regards,

Patrick Harris
Cyberian Frontier, Inc.

On Feb 25, 2004, at 11:07 AM, Jim Smith wrote:

> I have a computer-phobic client using an announcement list to send periodic
> bulletins to her customers. She uses AOL only and the backend of MailMan
> scared her to death. Even when I swapped her over to majordomo and
> configured everything I could for her, she had lots of problems
> understanding how to put the "approved" headers in an email. Either she or
> AOL messed them up too many times. I even had to go in and change her
> password late one night when she sent it out in an email to everyone on her
> list <sigh>. 
>
> After too much hand-holding and her getting very frustrated with "too much
> technology", I decided I'd better create something even more user friendly.
> Here's what I did for her and will likely use again. I thought some other
> folks may like to use the idea so I'm sharing it here.
>
> I set up a password-protected directory with a CGI mail form with exactly
> two fields for her to deal with: Subject (max 40 characters), and Body. Now
> she goes in, puts in the subject and pastes in the body and can see exactly
> what it will look like when she hits submit and sends it to everyone's
> email. No more AOL hidden tags, no more dealing with lines of passwords or
> From/To fields. All of that stuff is in the mailtemp.txt file. Actually, to
> keep the approved password inside the password protected directory, I made
> it a hidden field that gets passed to the mailtemp.txt file. Both Subject
> and Body are required fields so she can't accidentally send out a blank
> email.
>
> She tried the new system yesterday for the first time and was dancing for
> joy. Something so simple has just made her life (and mine) so much better
> <grin>. Here's the mailtemp.txt info that I used. 
> ========================
> Approved: [approved]
> Reply-To: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Bulletin Update List <bulletins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: The Bulletin <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [subject]
>
> [content]
> ========================
> That's all there is to it. The form completes the approved, subject, and
> content areas and sends it out. Hope that helps someone else. Any
> suggestions for tweaking it or improving it further are welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Smith
>
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