Can we schedule emails for a group of users with both excel and html in one email?
Any help is appreciated.
MicroStrategy out of the box doesn't allow you to have two attachments or to attach an excel and also the data in HTML in the email body.
You can try to send two different emails (probably you already thought of it) or you need some ad-hoc solution for your case. I think your possibilities are:
Write some SDK code for MSTR to export the Excel and the HTML files and then send them.
Export the files to a disk location with a schedule and have an external script to create and send one single email every time the files are refreshed.
Then first solution (more complicated to implement) can read the addresses from MicroStrategy, the second one (easier) probably will require that the list of subscribers is maintained also outside MicroStrategy.
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My problem is two fold.
1. I have a customer base that need to send me attachments. When they register with me, I'd like to assign them a unique email address. ie. uniqueId#...com
Is there a "special" way to do this, or do I need a mail server? I'm not really across mail servers other than how to set MX records. So not sure how they really work.
The emails that they send me will have attachments. PDFs, .doc, Images. I want to automatically read the attachments using OCR technology.
More after a point in the right direction of how I would implement something like this.
I have data coming in to a MySQL instance and I want to be able to analyze time-seperated data and generate a report based on that. What would be the best software/method to make use of? Would Jasper reports be of use here?
Free/open source would be preferable. The reports can go out to a number of preset emails assigned based on the data being reported on. For example, Site A which will have a report sent out every hour based on the incoming data would go out to a managed list of 4 or 5 people, and so forth.
I think you should take a look at DBxtra, and specifically at the Schedule Server component which lets you send reports in emails automatically and unattended every certain time, although it's not free (there is a fully functional trial version however).
If you insist on it being free, i think that you can use any option you want (i prefer Jasper Reports), but you'll need to create and send the emails by hand or make a solution yourself as the option to send emails automatically it's not present on the free tiers.
P.S.: I'm a DBxtra evangelist.
I'm trying to send a monthly snapshot of our user's activity using mandrill templates.
I want to be able to send an inline image of a graph of their activity. The image is generated on the server side and attached to the email. I can easily do this when I send to a single recipient by adding the attachment to the images property of the message object.
However, what about when I want to send a batch of emails? How can I ensure that each inline picture goes to each recipient but not to all? I've experimented with using ids in the inline markup
<img src="cid:image_*|recipientid|*">
but although this appears to work, if you open the message source, you'll see that all recipients receive all images - when I want to send a batch to 100's of people at a time, I can't see this as being very effective.
Also have tried
<img src="*|base64string|*">
Which works, however support for inline base64 images in email clients is extremely poor, so it isn't really an option.
Any help would be very appreciated.
If anyone could also tell me what kind of performance tradeoff I'm likely to get by calling the mandrillapi lots of times versus once, that would be good as I'm starting to think this may be the only way to get what I need, perhaps even dividing into batches of 10 at a time and allowing people to download the extra 9 images they don't need (I'm expecting image sizes of 10KB).
Thanks
As of July 2015, this is not possible
for my group at the university I'd like to set up a server-sided email-to-rss service.
It should work like that, that different people can send emails to a certain address (nothing proprietary like gmail but a certain imap or pop server) which will the be translated into an rss feed. One main and important feature has to be that one can see the sender of the email in the feed. Furthermore it would be nice (to take the load off the server) if the emails get translated to a feed only once a day or so.
Does anyone has some input on this subject? Are there any scripts/services which will allow that?
Thanks a bunch.
Instead of "reinventing the wheel", you could use a mailing list that supports RSS. Your people can then write the mails to the mailing list and you can then use the mailing list's RSS feed however you intend to.
This should help you find a solution: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mailing%20list%20rss
Pick a programming language you're familiar with, then use either an imap library to fetch the E-mails (through cron, every hour or something like that), or if you have access to procmail on your mail server, launch your script as an email arrives (this shouldn't be too much work to handle for a server, unless you're talking a vast amount of E-mail).
The script would just insert the E-mails into a database, before extracting them and outputting the RSS-feed directly from that (this shouldn't be more than a handful of lines of code).
There's a couple of providers that does this for you, although it seems that the most popular ones have disappeared. Advanced Email2RSS seems to be an option, although I have no idea how good they are or if it'll even solve your issue.
We're programming a Testing Web Application for a University in ColdFusion with a MS SQL Backend.
Right now we have to manually take faxes sent to our fax machine and then find the account they are related to and input the info (the actual fax has to be found in a filing cabinet if we ever need to reference it again). What I would like to do is create a way for someone to fax to a certain number and then the fax be sent to an email account we specify.
If that worked properly we would need a way to get the email, store it somewhere on our servers and then link it to an account. The linking process would probably have to be manual and we are ok with that, but an easy way to view all the faxes sent to that email in our ColdFusion application in PDF form (searchable by the name we assign it) is what we are mainly looking for, so that we don't have to get the faxes on paper and file them by hand.
Is there a way to accomplish this? Preferably not through a paid service as we can program almost anything we need ourselves.
Hmm... have you tried services like eFax?
Why reinvent the wheel? Services like eFax and jConnect (there are several others, just Google "electronic fax service") are affordable and do half of what you are trying to do. Save yourself the effort and just spend a few bucks. You'll probably find out, too, that it will cost you less to just pay for the service than it would cost you to pay the developer to write the software.
So after you bite the bullet and sign up for an electronic faxing service, you just need an email account for it to send to, and to use CFPOP to check the inbox and download the attachments. The rest is a piece of cake.
From the sounds of it, I have built something identical to this faxing setup with Coldfusion.
After a few trials and errors I found best way to go is:
1) DIGITIZE INCOMING FAXES: Have all faxes either sent to an email address you can check via CF, or a network folder you save them on, which you can check with CF. You can absolutely keep your fax number and simply call forward incoming calls to your digital fax number.
2) PROCESS INCOMING FAXES When you find a new fax, it is best to process it and make a record of it. I store things like the file name, dig up the fax number it came from, check it against a list of known numbers, and have a routing table (in case it needs to go to someone).
3) PRINT AND ROUTE FAX Auto printing a document once in CF is possible via CF as well.
As for tables, I keep one to store each fax. I store the fax itself in a blob as well. Easy to replicate and move around, no big performance hit. I keep another table to store a list of incoming number profiles (like a caller ID table) to relate the number to a customer. I keep a table for routing rules, if an email comes from here, send it here. Last, but not least, if you have to manage multiple phone numbers, you can create multiple incoming profiles and file them.
Once you have each fax stored in the DB, you can do a lot with it and file/index/ store it digitally how you like. CFDOCUMENT will display disk based PDFs.
I ended up having to program something like this for custom routing options. It is possible to auto link items to certain files/folders/projects if you like as well with CF.
If you need to know anything else, ask, or we can discuss it off line if you need to keep some details private.
Agree with Adam. Don't create a bunch of problems for yourself - you'll save a lot of money and nerves by just using the existing service.
On the topic: I use Popfax and I kind of like it. It's comfy, gives you opportunities, discounts, contests and a lot of stuff you'd like if you'd be interested in. It's cheap (at least, 100% cheaper than your own software) and you can use it not only on PC, but also via mobile phone