Can an autoresponder do this?

[GoldenEggs]

I have an idea percolating in my brain but wanted to know if an autoresponder, such as aweber, can do it.

This is not my idea but there are websites where a child can get a personalized letter from Santa or the Toothfairy or the Easter Bunny. Can I use an autoresponder to provide a similar service? The user would fill in information on a template and it would be emailed to them on a certain date.

 

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[Udt123]

You can probably pay somebody to do this but it won't be cheap. I can tell you that aweber definitely can NOT do this.

 

[LightHouse]

An autoreponder is just going to send a single email back to a person. I am not sure if aweber is capable but some autp responders will use tokens. You would have to have a user form coded where each holiday is a differetn address that the email comes from so they are seperate, and whatever the user inputs is what is entered in the autoresponder.. the other thing is timing, i dont think you can set an actual autoresponder up on a time schedule like that. But you can have a script written that will do it.

an issue you may run into is mail server details and your mass messeges being a problem to the email provider or host, plus your inboxing rate/spamboxing

 

[TC2]

Let's not call it autoresponder.

In that case, you want to use a dedicated hosting and mail server to handle that. It's basically a scheduled email. You simply create a form to accept entry which including time, the email of requester, the email of recipient and the message.

You store the information in database and run a cron job at background to process all the email queue.

It's like the e-card you send to other people. I forgot the name of the site, but there is at least one out there sending reminder to people who set that up few months ago.

 

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[GoldenEggs]

Thanks everyone! Now I am off to research dedicated hosting and email servers....

 

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With XXXXXXXXXXXXXX AutoResponders, you would create your letters using tokens to personalize them to the recipient.

Then you would store/schedule the letters to go out at the time you desired.