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

1. Why remake the wheel? There are plenty of web-based mail clients. Why
not try one of those and see if you like it? You should then be able to
customize it a bit for your purposes, like adding in custom address book
listing or tying a database to your address book.

2. You can do it all in DW (except for the database), but you're going to
have to hand-code most of it. Are you OK with that?

3. You will first need to setup and design a database. If you've not done
this before, you will need to spec out exactly what each email will have in
it, and all the different methods of delivering it (ie, individual, group,
mailing list, group/and.mailing list, but not duplicates, etc.). You can
then post this or just hire a database dude to come in and help you out.

This is pre-coffee, so I might drop by and tell you I was full of it. ;o)

HTH,

Jon
"aman16" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>