Hi there, I am trying to figure out ASP and its functionality and I was wondering if someone can help me. I want to setup a database where I can do mail merges from. Lets say theres a 30 day notice letter I want to send out and 30 people need to be notified. I want to be able to print off a report or something to be able to mail merge them. I donno if this is making any sense but I hope this gives you some idea as to what help I need. Thanks in advance!
How would you want them to be created? An email? For this sort of thing you would normally create the template with placeholders for the details (eg Dear ##name##,). Read the letter into a string variable and then replace the placeholders with the appropriate text (ie replace ##name## with Joe Bloggs) It is hard to give a real example without fully understanding how you want it to function (and if you are using classic asp or asp.net)
After you create your database make the newsletter take in variables like for example {FULLNAME} and then do text replaces in your scripts. Word to the wise: Make sure when you send out mass mails you don't send them using the normal smtp send method but use a pickup location and create the files there and let the mail server do it on it's own, this will help the script moving along faster.