Sending emails from remote locations

[jmichell]

One of our volunteers sends out weekly messages and the monthly newsletter by email from his home computer. The people who want to receive these two types of message are different subsets of our congregation.
I want this volunteer to be able to send these messages using the email addresses we're storing in PC+, so he doesn't have to maintain two distribution lists, and so he and the database administrators aren't both doing the same work.
He would prefer not to use Remote Desktop, and he'd also rather do his work at home.
Can anyone suggest a way to satisfy his wishes?
Than

[NeilZ]

One of our volunteers sends out weekly messages and the monthly newsletter by email from his home computer. The people who want to receive these two types of message are different subsets of our congregation.
I want this volunteer to be able to send these messages using the email addresses we're storing in PC+, so he doesn't have to maintain two distribution lists, and so he and the database administrators aren't both doing the same work.
He would prefer not to use Remote Desktop, and he'd also rather do his work at home.
Can anyone suggest a way to satisfy his wishes?
Than

You could try creating a report for each subset you want using the personal profile's 'email address' report, saving it to an excel, edit the file to remove the extraneous data and add commas or semi-colons (depending on what his email program uses) and then use that as imput.

Or you can create a custom report that only outputs the email addresses and the delimiter, and save that to a file so he can use that.

FWIW ... using Remote Desktop or GoToMyPC (which is actually safer) is much easier than having to regenerate the file every month or so. The data in the database is always updated, and the email goes out under the church's email address.