Workflow for Direct Mailer
The following figure shows the workflow for Direct Mailer.
- A list of recipients created from an application such as an Analysis report, text file (comma-separated value (CSV)), or SQL Server table is imported into List Manager.
- A Direct Mailer job is run from the command line, or a direct mail campaign is created in Commerce Server Business Desk.
- The List Manager service populates the DirectMailer database with the list of recipients, passing the DirectMailer database connection string as a parameter.
- The DirectMailer service executes the T-SQL OpenRowset command to select data from the Campaigns database.
- The list data is populated from the Campaigns database to the DirectMailer database.
- The Direct Mail Windows NT Service receives the list data from the Direct Mailer database.
- The Direct Mailer service sends the e-mail to the recipients.
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