Email Archive Manager

[jacque427]

They wrote a really interesting white paper on email marketing which I commend to you. You'll see that they have deep subject matter expertise.

I like their ideas and papers but don't believe it'll work for me. I'll see if I can modify the e-mail archive and make it work for a newsletter archive.

If I can I'll post it for cleanup and sharing.

jacque

[paperthreads]

Is there a way to change the Email Archive Manager, so that I can trim it every WEEK, instead of once a month?

I find that my archive, by the end of a 30 day period can be as high as 100MB...and need to have a shorter period, so I can trim those emails more often.

[swguy]

You'd have to write code to do this; it's not built in at the moment.

[paperthreads]

Can I manually do it in the database? if so, would it be an easy process or dangerous process?

(in other words, i'm good at using the GUI interface press here buttons, but codes, databases and all that scare me!)

The reason i'm looking to do this is because my store is LARGE in my standards....500+ orders a month, about 3000 products, 98% of them download files. So anyway I can start trimming that database, i'm told the better it will start running.

As it is, when we get over 70+ users on there at one time (between the store, forum, gallery, and designer blogs) we have a site that is on a dedicated server that is once again crawling, with parse times over 20 seconds...

[DrByte]

Do you *need* to be the emails in the first place?

[paperthreads]

I ONLY use them for retrieving reset passwords for my customers...as i have had times when they email me complaining they couldn't remember their password, so they request it to be reset, but that they never got their email back with a new password (typically this is because it got filtered out in their bulk mail box...)

So I find it handy to go to the archives, find the email that was generated to them, then copy and paste it in a new email and send it to them.

While I don't use it often, i use it often enough to not want to get rid of the feature entirely.

[DrByte]

Very interesting, considering that the code is written to specifically NOT archive any password-reset or cc-middle-digit emails, for security reasons.

[paperthreads]

That's all i ever use it for.

[paperthreads]

here's a screen shot of an email, resetting my password..they very clearly show up in the email archive.

[DrByte]

Will have to make sure that's fixed in the next release :)