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"Jos Flachs" |
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18 Jun 2004 08:14:55 AM |
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OT: dbase/e-mail help |
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that.
The trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook,
and... I can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with
an email address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line.
Lotus Approach is even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply
forget about that one.
My boss doesn't want to use Outlook, or Outlook Expr <barf!>..., good
man! But I don't righly know any other program that can do the job,
except for those two.
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then
on, you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or
whatever wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
Btw. the advice I got about digicams: it's going to be a Canon EOS
300D. Good advice, and many thanks for the assist!
Auberge d'EAC
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 09:22:09 AM |
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:55 +0700 in alt.atheism, Jos Flachs (Jos
Flachs <'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com>) said, directing the reply to
alt.atheism
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that.
The trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook,
and... I can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with
an email address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line.
Lotus Approach is even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply
forget about that one.
My boss doesn't want to use Outlook, or Outlook Expr <barf!>..., good
man! But I don't righly know any other program that can do the job,
except for those two.
The quick and dirty way to do it would be to simply store the email
addresses in an access table, and use that to generate an asp page (on
an internal server!!!) that gives the email addresses. When a user
clicks on the email address it brings up whatever email client they've
set up, and Bjorn Strong-in-the-arm is your uncle.
Or have I completely misunderstood.
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then
on, you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or
whatever wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
Btw. the advice I got about digicams: it's going to be a Canon EOS
300D. Good advice, and many thanks for the assist!
Auberge d'EAC
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 07:15:48 PM |
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"Jos Flachs" <'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com> wrote in message
news:itk5d0hhlb45m3j12h9r3rmpvsevgb2u04@4ax.com...
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that.
The trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook,
and... I can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with
an email address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line.
Lotus Approach is even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply
forget about that one.
With Access and Outlook you have a simple solution, one that requires almost
no coding.
With Access you can send a message or you can open a message with all
fields filled and type in the messge itself. One line of code.
Look up SendObject in VB help.
If you don't want to use Outlook as your mail client then you have a lot of
work ahead of you. You no longer have what is a simple problem and looking
for a third party solution
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then
on, you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or
whatever wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
It sounds like you are talking about Exchange here with Outlook and Word as
a client.
While, you could, with Access arrange the view of the address book in as
many useful ways as you can with Outlook, you are still reinventing the
wheel.
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| User: "Don Kresch" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 06:18:44 PM |
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In alt.atheism on Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:55 +0700, Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com> let us all know that:
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that.
The trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook,
and... I can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with
an email address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line.
Why not? Works that way with Corel Paradox (as long as you're in
view mode and not in edit mode).
Try that and see what happens--maybe edit mode shuts it off like
in Paradox.
Don
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 09:55:10 AM |
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:55 +0700 in episode
<itk5d0hhlb45m3j12h9r3rmpvsevgb2u04@4ax.com> we saw our hero Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com>:
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that. The
trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook, and... I
can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with an email
address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line. Lotus Approach is
even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply forget about that one.
My boss doesn't want to use Outlook, or Outlook Expr <barf!>..., good man!
But I don't righly know any other program that can do the job, except for
those two.
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then on,
you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or whatever
wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
Doesn't sound like a database issue. Sounds like a
Microsoft-being-assholes issue.
They are prone to "integrating" things in such a way that only their
products work "integrated." I don't know how Winduzs does handlers for
email addresses. But sounds like the problem lies in whatever part of that
big mass of spaghetti code they laughingly call an "OS" recognizes email
addys and does the hand off to the MUA.
Far as databases, MySQL is getting to be really, really nice...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"I think it's the worst kept secret in Washington.
That everybody - everybody I talk to in Washington
has known and fully knows what [the neo-conservative]
agenda was and what they were trying to do."
[Retired General Anthony Zinni]
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| User: "Fear gan dia" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 01:48:39 PM |
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Verily verily I say unto you, it is written by "Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi>
in <pan.2004.06.18.14.55.09.537920@hoo.com-amikchi>:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:55 +0700 in episode
<itk5d0hhlb45m3j12h9r3rmpvsevgb2u04@4ax.com> we saw our hero Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com>:
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that. The
trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook, and... I
can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with an email
address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line. Lotus Approach is
even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply forget about that one.
My boss doesn't want to use Outlook, or Outlook Expr <barf!>..., good man!
But I don't righly know any other program that can do the job, except for
those two.
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then on,
you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or whatever
wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
Doesn't sound like a database issue. Sounds like a
Microsoft-being-assholes issue.
They are prone to "integrating" things in such a way that only their
products work "integrated." I don't know how Winduzs does handlers for
email addresses. But sounds like the problem lies in whatever part of that
big mass of spaghetti code they laughingly call an "OS" recognizes email
addys and does the hand off to the MUA.
Far as databases, MySQL is getting to be really, really nice...
I like MySQL too. The way I would approach this problem, FWIW,
is I would set up a MySQL database to store addys and other
data on the clients. Then I would run an Apache web server and
write some PHP scripts as a web front-end. You could have one
script to take in data about clients and write it to the DB.
Then another script would fetch data about a particular client
from the DB and generate a "mailto" link, e.g.
<a href="mailto:joeblow@xyz.com">Click to email</a>
Then when the user clicks on the link, whatever is configured as
their email program comes up with the address filled in. Or
you could generate a form the takes the user input and simply
sends an email directly using PHP's built-in email libraries.
Email me at feargandia AT arizonapersian DOT com if you
want more details.
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redoubt, were engaging in long-range mind control of George
Bush, chanting 'invade Iraq, you must invade Iraq.'"
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 07:37:09 PM |
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:48:39 +0000 in episode
<40d33907.001@hxsthrnxldnx.com> we saw our hero "Fear gan dia"
<lddssthtqhns@hxsthrnxldnx.com>:
I like MySQL too. The way I would approach this problem, FWIW, is I would
set up a MySQL database to store addys and other data on the clients. Then
I would run an Apache web server and write some PHP scripts...
No, no, no.
Here:
I would run an Apache web server and write some Perl scripts...
(Sorry, I'm having too much fun with Perl these days <G>)
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"I think it's the worst kept secret in Washington.
That everybody - everybody I talk to in Washington
has known and fully knows what [the neo-conservative]
agenda was and what they were trying to do."
[Retired General Anthony Zinni]
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| User: "LP" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 08:59:05 AM |
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On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:55 +0700, Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com> wrote:
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that.
The trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook,
and... I can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with
an email address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line.
Lotus Approach is even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply
forget about that one.
My boss doesn't want to use Outlook, or Outlook Expr <barf!>..., good
man! But I don't righly know any other program that can do the job,
except for those two.
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then
on, you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or
whatever wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
Btw. the advice I got about digicams: it's going to be a Canon EOS
300D. Good advice, and many thanks for the assist!
Do a google search for, "mass" "e-mail" "program"
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| User: "walksalone" |
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| Title: Re: OT: dbase/e-mail help |
18 Jun 2004 06:18:32 PM |
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On 18 Jun 2004 08:59:05 -0500, LP wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:55 +0700, Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com> wrote:
Good people of a.a., I need some help:
My boss wants me to design a simple database. No sweat, can do that.
The trick is that this is going to be a system wide addressbook,
and... I can't find a single dbase program that can simply work with
an email address!
In Access 2000 I can't do it. Yes, fill in an e-mail address, but you
can't click on that address to have your mail client pop up with a new
message open and the address filled in at the 'to' line.
Lotus Approach is even worse, and Filemaker Pro - well. Let's simply
forget about that one.
My boss doesn't want to use Outlook, or Outlook Expr <barf!>..., good
man! But I don't righly know any other program that can do the job,
except for those two.
The idea is that you fill in data (about clients) only once. From then
on, you use that addressbook to write mail messages or Word. (Or
whatever wordprocessor. I'm not stuck to Word anyway.)
What is a good way to go? Should I still advice to go for Outlook?
Btw. the advice I got about digicams: it's going to be a Canon EOS
300D. Good advice, and many thanks for the assist!
Do a google search for, "mass" "e-mail" "program"
htp://nonags.com
go to free for everyone section
choose closets or most dependable server
go to email collection, there is a multi mailer program that accepts
addresses from a text file, & sends them individually. No CC, no BC.
Set groups to your convenience, admin, tech, et whatever.
Doesn't sound exactly like what you want, but might be virus resistant.
walksalone who knows way to much about windows, it exists.
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