email

[Tyler]

I'll second Bob's suggestion - generating and mailing a PDF or making it
available for the customer to download/view it on your website is probably
the best solution.  We do that for many documents, and it works super well
for us.  If you don't know how to generate PDFs using Openserver's pcl2pdf
and mail them using sendmail, you'd definitely be best off using a Windows
box and Bob's software.

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:55:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com>
Subject: Re: email
To: ROBERT PULLIAM <pulliamr at earthlink.net>
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64ras.0904270951270.30624 at nimbus.anzio.com>
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, ROBERT PULLIAM wrote:

> Using sco unix.  Filepro.
> Is there a way to send email?   My business statements are
> getting to be so many and postal rates keep going up that I would like to
send statements by email.  A field in the filepro database contains the
email address.

There's probably more to it than that. What kind of email do you want to
send them? Plain text, which they have just as much trouble printing as
you do, that looks like 1965 correspondence? PCL, when you don't know if
they have a PCL printer?

A better option is to send them a well-formatted PDF. It can be viewed on
any system, printed on any printer, and it can look nice, with boxes,
logo, font changes, etc.

As has been mentioned, our software will allow you to pass the job to a
Windows box, create a PDF from it, and email it, interactively,
semi-interactively, or totally batch.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
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