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I ve to develop an application for a groccery shop which contains information abt the previlaged(frequent)customers such as their personal contact information with unique id for every customer and it is maintained in a database. And all the transactions made by the customers(like info abt the items purchased by every customer is also maintained unique, along with their last purchased data and so. The above informations vl b maintained by a unique database. Now my task is I have to develop an application By making use of the above database( which is alredy avail), and have to send a mail to those previlaged customer regarding the items discount offers and other relevent information abt the items purchased by everycustomer on the latest date. for example if Mr vjai is one of the previlaged cutsomer and he shops 20 items on 2-mar-2006, and my application should send a mail to mr vjai abt the items he purchased(like discount offers of those items,and various information abt the items he purchased) on latest date(i.e on 2-mar-2006) so that the customers can get benefitted by various services So plz can u help me by giving idea on how to start this project,and what r all the things i should take into consideration before proceeding towards my project..

  

As far as I see the main component in this software is the mailing part. You can either use a mail API or you can code the SMTP protocol your self. The former one would be easy and would give a more reliable solution. But since you are doing a project I would suggest you go for the ssecond method ie coding the SMTP protocol yourself. This will help you get insignhts into a lot of technologies. If this mail dosent solve your problems reply to this... Kenney