I use Outlook on my PC, which is nicely set up for my own company contact addresses and template/sigs.
I have been asked to send out a mail on behalf of someone else (client) and need to use a specific template for it. I also need to use their contact list but dont want to import it into my Outloook as it’ll screw my lists up.
I cant use the webmail that comes with the hosting of their website as it doesn’t offer the ability to import addresses from CSV file nor the use of templates.
Does anyone know of
a) another mail prog I can use on my PC to do all the above, or
b) a mail prog II can load up to the server that’ll do the same job?
I would prefer (b) as I could be doing this again for them in a month of two time.
Depending on the amount of email you need to send you could use ASP or PHP and code your own program. I think PEAR has something that allows you to import CSV files easily. If not it’s not too difficult to parse since it’s just comma separated values. It’s just a pain to reinvent the wheel if there’s an easier method.
Also if you’re sending a lot of emails, PHP’s mail() function may not be the best method. It opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email.
You may want to download a mail program (Thunderbird) and just use that to send then emails. Simple to install, setup, import contacts, etc. That way you’ll keep your contacts in Outlook, formatting the email is simple (no worries about content type), if you need to send an attachment - that’s easy enough, and so on…
