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by shanghai sam 1 view

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Can anyone give me a good basic design implementation for a newsletter subscription database involving IIS, Exchange 5.5, and either an access db or sql? I would like to be able to send an initial email to prospective clients asking them if they would like to subsribe to a newsletter. If they do, they they will hit reply, and the email would come back to exchange and then be routed to a database. From the db they would be added to a text list for blasting.

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by larry_hoehn

We've done something similar using the EXLIST List Server available on the Back Office Resource Kit. It can handle both remote and local users. When it's configured on your Exchange server, you can setup multiple lists, determine whether or not you want it moderated, private, and whether approval is required to join the list (or if you'll accept anyone who wants to join).

by estebandelatorre

Your mailing list should be a database which need sto be filtered and then have to be export to an address book. The email should be manually prepared, then select the users from the address book (all of them) in parts, do not intend to select more than 50 users at a time, the e-mail server can have some problems.
Include in the email a remove line. Asume that all people would like to suscribe to your datamail. Based upon the email recieved with the remove option in the sublect you can create a rule to export the mail into a txt. file, then have a script running that is waiting for a file to process. The script launches s VB program which reads the e-amil sender's address and mark the record into your database.
Hope it helps!!

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