Hi friends,
My query is on sending mails to newly created user using the direct mailer option. For an example, can i get the list of users who are registered for the day and send mails to them using Direct Mailer? Suppose that there are seven users who are registered today, i need to create a Direct Mailer schedule such that it sends mail to all of them at say 9PM.
I don't think Direct Mail was designed for that in mind. I have only seen it used with Marketing feature.
-Max
Hi Max,
The guy who asked the question is my team mate. The requirement basically is to send the promotional mail to the newly created users. For this i found only two approaches (i would say workaround)
Approach #1. Assing the newly registered users in the static list. And the marketing team can create a direct mailer based on this static list to send some promotional mails. But this should be sent only once, that is for the newly registered users. I also have to create a console application (runs with the scheduler) to clear the static list. So that it will contain only the newly registered users.
Approach #2: Creating a dynamic expression to create a dynamic list that will get the list of users registered for today. Now the problem is that there is no way i can define the current date. And the current date should be dynamic. Say if the directmailer runs today, then the date will be 29-Jul-2007. If it runs tomorrow, then it will be 30-Jul-2007. But i dont see this is possible.
Let me know If there is an alternative approach for this problem.
- Nazim
Hi Nazim,
Your first approach would work, or better yet create an expression list to choose the people with the required registration date. You'd still have to do this through your scheduled console app though. Your second approach would not work as you can't use the EEE in a direct mail expression.
Hope this helps,
David
