Auto email

[xtrim]

Hi

Iv'e been tryin to perform an automatic email sending with no success.

The goal is that if a user forgot his password, it will be sent to him.

First the user click on "Forgot your password?" and get redirected to

"mail.htm" with "username" field (as a new record) .

After I press submit and no errors occure, the page redirects you to "mail_reply.htm".

" Email with your password has been sent to you " is displayed and... nada!

1. I need an automatic email sending as I enter "mail_reply.htm". what is the best to do that without the need to press "send message" (example from FMP reference).

2. The "body" of the mail can be only a file? can I do anything else to create the email body??

tnx in advnc

[Unable]

It really is covered in the CDML Reference database. Also, realize that you are not alone in confusion and that many threads already exist about sending emails. Read a few of them, they can be invaluable to your understanding. To help you could start here. That should give you some ideas of usage and syntax. If it is not enough, search for email.

Good luck.

[Jeff Spall]

Hi, It's worth spending a few dollars on copies of the POP3-it and SMPT-it extensions as they offer some really useful features for sending and receiving mail from FileMaker.

You can get fully-working evaluation copies at

http:// www.smtpit.com

regards, jeff

[cjaeger]

plugin does not help in this case because the (limited) abilities of Filemaker to send email suffice.

[Jeff Spall]

Hi, our mailserver along with most others requires a username, password and authentication type to be passed before it will relay a message to another host, so the built-in Filemaker mailer fails. I was calling cgi's for mailing before SMTP-it, which is a far better solution. The only warning is that you are calling a script, but so far I've not had a problem with that.

regards, jeff

[xtrim]

Thanks guys.

I managed to make it work with InLine.

Tnx