E-Mail without Defailt Mail Settings

[golfinGarry]

Hello all...

Is there a way to send e-mail without attempting to open the default mail client on the users computer?

I would like to find a way to hardcode the mail server, the from, password etc.

If anyone knows of a way to do this I would be greatful.

Garry

[DykstrL]

One way would be to use a SMTP plugin.

[Steve T.]

Hi, GB! The folks who do serious mail use the plug-ins as D mentions. We used to also do mail through the web, though, too.

--ST

[Steve T.]

Hi, GB! The folks who do serious mail use the plug-ins as D mentions. We used to also do mail through the web, though, too.

--ST

[Steve T.]

Hi, GB! The folks who do serious mail use the plug-ins as D mentions. We used to also do mail through the web, though, too.

--ST

[Rushhour]

Hi

where can i get more info about SMTP plugin?

Is it really gd??

Thanks a lot..

Kelvin

[stanley]

Kelvin:

It is very good. The link is:

http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/products.htm?product=SMTPit%20Pro

-Stanley

[Rushhour]

Hi Stanley

But my company is in a iwp environment. iwp users able to use this plugin? They won't be having fm application.

Thanks a lot..

Kelvin

[T-Square]

Kelvin--

I assume you want to do this so that the clients can't modify the message going out.

In order to send email without triggering your user's email client, you'd have to install some other program (e.g., a command-line mail program like minimail for windows) that could take the data from FM and ship it out directly. That can't be done with IWP; both the Send Mail and Send Event script steps are not web-compatible. Your only web-compatible option is to use the Open URL script step with a mailto-type entry--which will fire up the client's default mail program. You can load this up with all the information from FM, but you can't guarantee that the end user won't muck with it.

Maybe you could find a way to do this on a server-based product; basically, you'd have some serverside script that executed this. But that's beyond my abilities.

David

[Rushhour]

Hi David

yeah you are right~ i did a search on mini mail and it seems interesting, it will be gd if can incoporate into filemaker. But is it workable in fm? anyone tried before?? How should i go about doing it??

Thanks a lot

Kelvin