Need to send e-mail with PowerBuilder

[Tentacle]

Hi all, I wonder if someone can help me, I’m using PB10 and would like to send e-mail with an application I wrote but using MAPI is not good enough unless someone knows how to specifically tell the MAPI command that I want to use a certain account on outlook express as it seems to always look for MS Outlook, and even then there is no way to control it completely. I want the user to pre-setup an e-mail smtp account and then use that without any other e-mail prompts popping up all over the place. Is there like a good (and preferably free) COM object or something out there or has anybody successfully added e-mail to their PB program without any hassles. I only need to send not recieve e-mail so SMTP is all I would look at... I’ve looked everywhere so any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone. Cheers

Tentacle

 

[mbalent]

If you use MS SQLServer you could use it to send emails and then have your PB app write to a table which is monitored by the database so it knows when, were, and what to send the message.

Matt

"Nature forges everything on the anvil of time

 

[Tentacle]

Sorry not using MS SQLServer, in fact using Firebird, plus I want to send an attachment in certain cases as well. Does anyone maybe know of a good website to read up on e-mail with PB (any version)? Thanks for the help so far though Matt. Cheers

 

[aschi666]

i used to have the exact same problem and looked around everywhere without any result, too. then i decided to "source out" the task:
i now use a delphi-dll that wraps indy-components to send mail without mapi.
check my website for a prototype of it called "mailbot":
sthcomputing.de, i could give you the code on demand...

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