Domino Designer - newsletter, mass-mailing

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Please help me to create an agent’s script for sending messages to external email addresses (the list of 100 e-mails). It is important that they will not could seen each other’s addresses. When emails putted in the list of blind copy field, my letters are often falling to spam, and my email come blacklisted.In addition, it is desirable that each the letter to each email from the list will be sended with an interval of 60 seconds.

  1. Can my task be solved using “Simple Actions”? How can I configure the agent, just for sending a letter by the command (pressing the button)?

I have made the following actions - clicked on my current post lable, and chose “open in Designer:”. In the Designer, I choose Create → Agent. Then “Simple Actions”. In the Actions I have added “Send mail”, there I put the recipient mail, the text of the letter, and the topic. Then choose a folder in “inFolder” in the “Document Selection”.

Then I go to the shedule, and putting the time and date when the agent should be started (for example, from 17:00 to 17:01), but nothing happens. What did I do wrong? How to launch the agent?

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Subject: You have to do this in LotusScript

Simple Actions won’t cut it. Either you should learn LotusScript or hire a consultant to write the agent for you.

Howard

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Subject: I wrote the agent on Lotus script, what shell I do to launch it?

Well, I wrote the agent on Lotus script, save it, how can I launch it now?

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Subject: Launching an agent

There are 3 ways :

  1. right click on the agent in the agent’s view and select “run”

  2. Write the code @Command( [ToolsRunMacro] ; agentName ) in a button and then click the button

  3. if you want to schedule the agent, ask the admins to give you agent run privilege on the server and then schedule the agent

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Subject: how to switch to the Agents view?

how to switch to the Agents view?

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Subject: Agents view is in Designer

it’s where you can see a list of agents for the database.

I’m going to suggest a couple of things:

  1. Training, training, an example of great training is here: http://www.tlcc.com/

  2. Consider using a hosted serivce for doing the mass mailing. Example constant contact. There are a few reasons for considering this, the primary one being that it will stop your servers being identified as a potential spam source thereby causing lots of your users regular emails ending up in peoples spam folders.