I have to find a solution to send an email to a customer database (11,000 contacts) but each recipient will receive a unique attachment as it’ll contain their account number and special pricing.
I know Marketo doesn't support attachments in emails but does anyone know of another way to achieve this?
I have some experience using experience using postfix. We have a developer on the team that has more experience than I do that would be able to help. I thought about trying to parse the emails to XML but, I am not sure that would work.
Not sure what you mean about parsing to XML, that wouldn’t help (they’d just have to be encoded as standard MIME afterward).
The general sequence is:
use Send Alert instead of Send Email so you can send via your rerouting/rewriting server, encoding the original email address in a custom field (there’s a way to use Send Email but it’s highly complex, save that for a v2!)
parse the email to a MIME object on your server
add the attachment
re-sign the email (you must invalidate the original DKIM signature and create a new one)
The only way to vaguely approach this is to gateway your Marketo emails through a dedicated SMTP server that attaches the file before relaying the email. We had to do this once. It was not, by any stretch, easy and was only possible b/c I used to be a mail admin. Otherwise you'd have to have very savvy + willing IT.
We are looking to do something similar. Essentially we need to have the reporting that we get from Marketo but be able to attach a PDF to the email prior to delivery. Any suggestions on how to get started?
I have some experience using experience using postfix. We have a developer on the team that has more experience than I do that would be able to help. I thought about trying to parse the emails to XML but, I am not sure that would work.
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