MBM Schedules

[ianblackford]

Hi

I was just playing with sending a mailing on a timed schedule. Just out of interest I set the schedule up then quit the program, of course, MBM didn't send the mail.

My question is therefore - is there anyway for a schedule to interact with the computers Cron tabs and auto boot the app when the schedule is about to action?

 

[stanbusk]

Right now you can't use MaxBulk Mailer with Cron. We would have to create another kind of scheduler and some kind of console application.

 

[ianblackford]

I was thinking about this after I posted - would it be possible to use something like CroniX on the mac to boot the app? I think the schedule gets lost after you quit though so I'm not sure if this would be of benefit.

I was only musing ways of making MBM more like an autoresponder - and trying to automate my marketing releasing me concentrate on getting the work done.

Making MBM into an autoresponder opens up a whole new can of worms like only sending to new contacts on a remote list etc - I guess it's a lot more work than just scheduling?

Thanks for the reply Stan

 

[ianblackford]

Could an Automator workflow be written to do it? Would that work?

 

[stanbusk]

I have never tried but it may work since MaxBulk Mailer supports AppleScript.