Email application using dreamweaver MX and ASP...Is this possible?

Question

Hello
I would like to create a web application that would allow
users to create and send emails a bit like Outlook but a bespoke
version.
There are a few things that this email application should do
such as:
1) Allow you to enter name, address, email address and job
category for each contact.
2) filter email list based on that above criteria eg. list
all the contacts that have a job category of Manager. One contact
may have one or more job category so the list would need to remove
any duplicates.
3) The email should get sent to everyone on the filtered list
so it would need to be able to send to multiple email addresses
4) The user should be able to send attachments.
I hope this makes sense. It would be great if I could do all
this in Dreamweaver.
Any help would be much appreciated on how I could develop
such a application and also if there any tutorials that I could
follow which allow me to do something similar.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hopefully this will set you in the right direction.
1. Create a user table. You will need to do this mentally
before actually
creating the database. What will the table contain? After you
have this
spec'd out, you can create it. You should create your entire
database
before creating it in whatever software you'r eusing (mySQL,
Access, SQL)
2. Design your jobs table. This will contain all info you
need to store
about the job.
3. Create a form that uses lists to build your "email". This
should be a
form that says, select Name, Adress or job category. This
will feed into
your SQL statement(or DW recordset), which will bring up all
your contacts
where your Name field in your user table (or Address, or Job
Category or all
three). You can tweak this until you get it just how you like
it.
4. Lastly you should have a very simple form (you don't
mention what server
language you're using) that will build an email based upon
the contacts you
have selected and email them.
You will need to get the database up and structure setup
before I could help
you more with it. Do you feel comfortable doing that?
"aman16" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Thank you for your reply. Its much appreciated.
>
> I have made website in Dreamweaver before using ASP and
databases. I dont
> usually hande code though and just use the built in
tools that Dreamweaver
> MX
> has as standard. I just need a step in the right
direction really thats
> why I
> would appreciate any tutorials that you may no of which
do something
> similar or
> maybe do a part of what I am trying to do. I could get
as far as making a
> database with contacts and all there details and then
making an ASP page
> to
> display that information and maybe filter it in some way
but I dont know
> how to
> then extract the email address from that filtered info
and then make a
> form to
> type the message and attach any attachments and then
email the form to all
> the
> email addresses from the filtered list.
>
> You mentioned that there are web based email
applications out there that I
> can
> customize to do a similar thing. Could you let me know
of any names of
> these
> programs so I can then read up about them? I would like
to customize it
> quite a
> bit though to try and make them as bespoke as possible.
>