Using Eudora instead of Emailer, and cron facility

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1998

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texte = Howdy,I have read in the docs and seen here that WebMerchant can be integratedwith Eudora instead of Emailer for sending attachments, etc. However, itlooks like Webcatalog only supports Emailer. Is that true, or am I missingsomething simple? The Webcatalog Prefs page only talks about starting andstopping the Emailer application. Has anyone implemented an emailinterface with Eudora in Applescript they would like to share? :)The reason I ask is that we are planning to email daily, weekly, andmonthly sales reports directly from Webcat, and I think we will hitEmailer's message size limit (is it 9k?). We could email people a url withthe report location on our web site, but in my experience reports are muchmore likely to be read if they are included in the email and don't requireany extra steps for the user.My second question may be a feature request. I need to execute some webcatcode once every x time increment, where x is probably once per day, onceper week, once per month, and probably some other odd times as well.I know that there is already some cleanup code that is executed once perhour (shopping cart maintenance), and I was thinking how nice it would beto have some generic facility available in Webcat for scheduled executionof procedures.I can envision setting up a cron database with date, time, and commands toexecute, and tying that into some html page that users hit fairly often(like the home page) and check the cron database to see if any proceduresare due to be executed. The down side of this method is if any of thesecommands are time consuming (like multiple filesystem calls, re-renderingof html files, etc), then the unlucky person who hits the index page at theright time gets to wait for all of these commands to execute before theirpage is displayed.I suppose I could set up Pagesentry to hit particular pages at specificintervals to execute my scheduled procedures. Unfortunately, I don'thave the extra sentries to do this at the moment, and I think there shouldbe an easier way to do it totally inside webcat.Any ideas?Thanks,Dale---Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.comDirector of MIS, WebMaster | http://www.dhorse.com/Dark Horse Comics, Inc. |Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Using Eudora instead of Emailer, and cron facility (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1998)
Re: Using Eudora instead of Emailer, and cron facility (Grant Hulbert 1998)
Using Eudora instead of Emailer, and cron facility (Dale LaFountain 1998)

Howdy,I have read in the docs and seen here that WebMerchant can be integratedwith Eudora instead of Emailer for sending attachments, etc. However, itlooks like Webcatalog only supports Emailer. Is that true, or am I missingsomething simple? The Webcatalog Prefs page only talks about starting andstopping the Emailer application. Has anyone implemented an emailinterface with Eudora in Applescript they would like to share? :)The reason I ask is that we are planning to email daily, weekly, andmonthly sales reports directly from Webcat, and I think we will hitEmailer's message size limit (is it 9k?). We could email people a url withthe report location on our web site, but in my experience reports are muchmore likely to be read if they are included in the email and don't requireany extra steps for the user.My second question may be a feature request. I need to execute some webcatcode once every x time increment, where x is probably once per day, onceper week, once per month, and probably some other odd times as well.I know that there is already some cleanup code that is executed once perhour (shopping cart maintenance), and I was thinking how nice it would beto have some generic facility available in Webcat for scheduled executionof procedures.I can envision setting up a cron database with date, time, and commands toexecute, and tying that into some html page that users hit fairly often(like the home page) and check the cron database to see if any proceduresare due to be executed. The down side of this method is if any of thesecommands are time consuming (like multiple filesystem calls, re-renderingof html files, etc), then the unlucky person who hits the index page at theright time gets to wait for all of these commands to execute before theirpage is displayed.I suppose I could set up Pagesentry to hit particular pages at specificintervals to execute my scheduled procedures. Unfortunately, I don'thave the extra sentries to do this at the moment, and I think there shouldbe an easier way to do it totally inside webcat.Any ideas?Thanks,Dale---Dale LaFountain | mailto:dalel@dhorse.comDirector of MIS, WebMaster | http://www.dhorse.com/Dark Horse Comics, Inc. |Phone: 503-652-8815 x324 Dale LaFountain

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Using Eudora instead of Emailer, and cron facility

1998

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