Hello:
I have an in-house client billing system application that I wrote and maintain. It runs under VFP 9. One of the functions is to E-mail invoices and reports. This program composes an E-mail and attaches the appropriate files accessing Outlook through automation.
Production was using Outlook 2010. That worked fine.
Production now has Office 2016 Outlook. This still works, but when sending the E-mail through automation, there is a delay of a few minutes. This is for *just one* E-mail. When, instead, a E-mail is generated and saved through the VFP program and then sent by the operator manually in Outlook, there is no delay.
Is there any way to get around this delay and still send through automation in the VFP program?
If i have left out any significant details, please let me know. I do not know Outlook nearly as well as I know VFP.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
Post your question in Foxite or Tektips in the hope Mike Gagnon will notice, he is the expert TP know such Outlook questions Koen
Op zo 2 sep. 2018 om 02:55 schreef Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net
Hello:
I have an in-house client billing system application that Iwrote and maintain. It runs under VFP 9. One of the functions is to E-mail invoices and reports. This program composes an E-mail and attaches the appropriate files accessing Outlook through automation.
Production was using Outlook 2010. That worked fine. Production now has Office 2016 Outlook. This still works, butwhen sending the E-mail through automation, there is a delay of a few minutes. This is for *just one* E-mail. When, instead, a E-mail is generated and saved through the VFP program and then sent by the operator manually in Outlook, there is no delay.
Is there any way to get around this delay and still sendthrough automation in the VFP program?
If i have left out any significant details, please let meknow. I do not know Outlook nearly as well as I know VFP.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Op zo 2 sep. 2018 om 09:09 schreef Koen Piller koen.piller@gmail.com
Post your question in Foxite or Tektips in the hope Mike Gagnon will notice, he is the expert TP know such Outlook questions Koen
Op zo 2 sep. 2018 om 02:55 schreef Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net
Hello:
I have an in-house client billing system application that Iwrote and maintain. It runs under VFP 9. One of the functions is to E-mail invoices and reports. This program composes an E-mail and attaches the appropriate files accessing Outlook through automation.
Production was using Outlook 2010. That worked fine. Production now has Office 2016 Outlook. This still works, butwhen sending the E-mail through automation, there is a delay of a few minutes. This is for *just one* E-mail. When, instead, a E-mail is generated and saved through the VFP program and then sent by the operator manually in Outlook, there is no delay.
Is there any way to get around this delay and still sendthrough automation in the VFP program?
If i have left out any significant details, please let meknow. I do not know Outlook nearly as well as I know VFP.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Are there any messages or dialogues displayed or is it simply just a delay?
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: Sunday, 02 September 2018 01:53 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Office 2016 Outlook Problem: Throttled Output
Hello:
I have an in-house client billing system application that I wrote and maintain. It runs under VFP 9. One of the functions is to E-mail invoices and reports. This program composes an E-mail and attaches the appropriate files accessing Outlook through automation.
Production was using Outlook 2010. That worked fine.
Production now has Office 2016 Outlook. This still works, but when sending the E-mail through automation, there is a delay of a few minutes. This is for *just one* E-mail. When, instead, a E-mail is generated and saved through the VFP program and then sent by the operator manually in Outlook, there is no delay.
Is there any way to get around this delay and still send through automation in the VFP program?
If i have left out any significant details, please let me know. I do not know Outlook nearly as well as I know VFP.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Instead of using Outlook automation, and risking it breaking during every upgrade, and potentially being marked as a spammer, perhaps using a transactional email service might be an approach to consider. Depending on how many invoices you are sending, it could cost less than $40 per month. I've seen a demo and it is wicket fast.
hth, Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gene Wirchenko Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2018 8:53 PM To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Subject: Office 2016 Outlook Problem: Throttled Output
Hello:
I have an in-house client billing system application that I wrote and maintain. It runs under VFP 9. One of the functions is to E-mail invoices and reports. This program composes an E-mail and attaches the appropriate files accessing Outlook through automation.
Production was using Outlook 2010. That worked fine.
Production now has Office 2016 Outlook. This still works, but when sending the E-mail through automation, there is a delay of a few minutes. This is for *just one* E-mail. When, instead, a E-mail is generated and saved through the VFP program and then sent by the operator manually in Outlook, there is no delay.
Is there any way to get around this delay and still send through automation in the VFP program?
If i have left out any significant details, please let me know. I do not know Outlook nearly as well as I know VFP.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, at 7:35 PM, Kevin J Cully wrote:
Instead of using Outlook automation, and risking it breaking during every upgrade, and potentially being marked as a spammer, perhaps using a transactional email service might be an approach to consider.
This is definitely the way to go these days for bulk sending. Outlook, and specifically Outlook connected to hosted Exchange, is not designed to do bulk sends.
If you look at a service like SendGrid, you can set up HTML templates to handle your company logos and stationery and achieve mail-merge type functionality, it has an excellent API that you can pump the raw email information and attachments into, it will handle all the re-sending and reporting on failed sends, and it's inexpensive even for hundreds of thousands of mails. There is a small pain point in setting up DKIM\SPF so that they can send emails on your domain's behalf but beyond that it works extremely well.
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