how can i do this? (Win 2000 and ASP)

My idea, the news letter already wroten and saved either in txt or db format.

somehow (thats my problem here) set up a schedule that run this sending news letter code at 1:00am.

Send out 250 mails, then stand-by 5 mins, send out another 250 mails so on and so fouth till send out all the mails to all the registered members.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thank you very much,

One solution would involve a custom smtp server that you can set the interval for.

A great product that has the functionality that I think will solve your problem is postcastserver (its free from http://www.postcast.com)

What you do is, send the emails to your (ie, postcast) server, then configure the server to send out emails at the interval you specified (these options are available in the product). This way, you don't have to be up at 1:00 AM sending emails, you can send them at anytime of the day, and they just sit in the queue of postcast till your scheduled time.

Postcast allows you to set the "pause" between the email sends also.

Try it out ... you may like it :D

tks man...great help!

so there is no any other system program (win 2000 itself) I can use for my needs eh...??? I must do this by using 3rd party software?

TKS agian

IIS comes with a SMTP server, but I have never used it.

You could try that.

Another option would be to create a macro that does the email sending, save it, and then use windows scheduler (I believe its called Tasks in 2000) to run that macro at your set time.

Another option would be to use Windows Scripting.

Best of luck.