Thanks Kevin - Mandrill would certainly handle the volume but their minimum of 25,000 per month is overkill. My current folder of less than 1000 represents a whole years worth of files. Going forward I expect less than 50 per month. Another approach would be to find a vendor who could receive all the files in a single zip and send them out one at a time. I'm waiting to hear from the recipient if there is a limit on how many files I can send in a day or i they have a better way to handle an entire folder at a time.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:

Hey Joe,

I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...

1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email

addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/) It costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed, keeping you from sending out emails in the future.

2. For converting documents to an image, look either at ImageMagick or

HTMLToPDF.

Hope this helps. Let us know what you decide to do with your project.

-Kevin

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Joe Yoder Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 12:24 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Automated email utility recommendations

This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the header?

I have two tasks I would like to automate:

1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email

attachments one at a time. 2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an attachment.

Any suggestions welcome!

Thanks in advance

Joe

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I use a piece of code from sweetpotato.com which works well.

John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631

Kevin - The issue is that the site that needs to end up with the files has only two known ways to receive images: One at a time selection from their web app or one at a time via email attachment. This is probably their way to limit the volume of images they get. Perhaps they will reply to my inquiry that they can handle a zipped batch for a fee. That would be fine by me. - Joe

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Joe Yoder joe@wheypower.com wrote:

John - I think you mean SweetPotatoSoftware.com. It looks like there are a lot of options there. Care to share which one you are using or started from? - Joe

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:33 PM, John Weller john@johnweller.co.uk wrote:

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I use a piece of code from sweetpotato.com which works well.

John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631

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I suggest looking at this another way. Basically, you're paying $20 per month to send up to 25,000 emails. That still sounds like a good deal to me to protect your domain from being blacklisted.

The above really applies if you're sending to many different customers. If you're sending to a limited clientele, then in addition to Dropbox, you may want to check out Syncthing. https://syncthing.net/ The price is right.

-Kevin

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Joe Yoder Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 1:16 PM To: Foxpro forum profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: Automated email utility recommendations

Thanks Kevin - Mandrill would certainly handle the volume but their minimum of 25,000 per month is overkill. My current folder of less than 1000 represents a whole years worth of files. Going forward I expect less than 50 per month. Another approach would be to find a vendor who could receive all the files in a single zip and send them out one at a time. I'm waiting to hear from the recipient if there is a limit on how many files I can send in a day or i they have a better way to handle an entire folder at a time.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Kevin J Cully kjcully@cherokeega.com wrote:

Hey Joe,

I'm hearing a Ted-ism coming along as a "It depends", but ...

1. For sending massive amounts of individual emails to external email

addresses, look at a service such as Mandrill. (https://mandrill.com/) It costs money but will keep your domain from getting black-listed, keeping you from sending out emails in the future.

2. For converting documents to an image, look either at ImageMagick

or HTMLToPDF.

Hope this helps. Let us know what you decide to do with your project.

-Kevin

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Joe Yoder Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 12:24 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Automated email utility recommendations

This could be VFP or otherwise - not sure if there should be [NF] in the header?

I have two tasks I would like to automate:

1. Send several hundred .JPG files in a local folder as email

attachments one at a time. 2. Convert an Email to an image and send it to an email address as an attachment.

Any suggestions welcome!

Thanks in advance

Joe

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