Hi
I use Fastmail to allow my clients to send wage slips to their employees in my payroll program. Currently it is down: http://www.fastmailstatus.com/ So I suppose I should set up another email provider to forward these emails if/when Fastmail fails. So how can I tell if Fastmail is down? I do get an error after 10 seconds, 1429 OLE IDespatch exception code 0 from?
Any thoughts/code much appreciated, who else to use?
How about using a Gmail account as an alternative?
As for the Error - can't you just trap for it - then handle sending to alternate email account? Maybe even do a WAIT command - for like 12 seconds - then test for the Error??
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
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Hi
I use Fastmail to allow my clients to send wage slips to their employees in my payroll program. Currently it is down: http://www.fastmailstatus.com/ So I suppose I should set up another email provider to forward these emails if/when Fastmail fails. So how can I tell if Fastmail is down? I do get an error after 10 seconds, 1429 OLE IDespatch exception code 0 from?
Any thoughts/code much appreciated, who else to use?
-- Kind regards
Andrew Stirling 01250 870397 / 874580 07910467915 support@calcpay.co.uk http://www.calcpay.co.uk
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I do exactly the same from NY payroll application and use a Gmail account. On 1/07/2016 4:46 AM, "Kurt Wendt" Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
How about using a Gmail account as an alternative?
As for the Error - can't you just trap for it - then handle sending to alternate email account? Maybe even do a WAIT command - for like 12 seconds
- then test for the Error??
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
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Hi
I use Fastmail to allow my clients to send wage slips to their employees in my payroll program. Currently it is down: http://www.fastmailstatus.com/ So I suppose I should set up another email provider to forward these emails if/when Fastmail fails. So how can I tell if Fastmail is down? I do get an error after 10 seconds, 1429 OLE IDespatch exception code 0 from?
Any thoughts/code much appreciated, who else to use?
-- Kind regards
Andrew Stirling 01250 870397 / 874580 07910467915 support@calcpay.co.uk http://www.calcpay.co.uk
This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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I would be looking at sending through the SMTP servers or API of a dedicated emailing service like MailJet for this sort of thing. You have to be very careful around the area of authorised senders and blacklists when doing bulk sends. Hosted Exchange and Gmail have limitations like daily\hourly recipient and message rate limits, you can't change the 'reply to' address and stuff like that.
Taking MailJet their free plan gives you 200 emails a day, their basic paid one is $7 a month and gives you 30,000 emails.
Thanks all for the advice.
Kind regards
Andrew Stirling 01250 870397 / 874580 07910467915 support@calcpay.co.uk http://www.calcpay.co.uk
On 01/07/2016 11:51, Alan Bourke wrote:
I would be looking at sending through the SMTP servers or API of a dedicated emailing service like MailJet for this sort of thing. You have to be very careful around the area of authorised senders and blacklists when doing bulk sends. Hosted Exchange and Gmail have limitations like daily\hourly recipient and message rate limits, you can't change the 'reply to' address and stuff like that.
Taking MailJet their free plan gives you 200 emails a day, their basic paid one is $7 a month and gives you 30,000 emails.
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