How to email a file.

[mdroyal]

I am curious how to email a record to a client. I am using a Mac...OS9, but am moving up to Panther soon. I know that it's possible to fax an individual record, but how do I email one? I have a client that does not (GASP) have a fax machine and I'd also save a lot of trees.

Thanks

Mike

[Vaughan]

Well, a "file" and a "record" are very different things... You can email information from a record using the Send Mail [] script step. Generally people concatenates all the necessary data from the record into one tcalculated text field and specify this field in the Send Mail script step.

Note that Send Mail cannot send rich text or html messages, it's limited to plain text.

If you want fancier email options then you'll need a third-party plugin.

[mdroyal]

I do need to send individual records. If third party is the way to go, can anyone suggest one? I'd like to send the record WYSIWYG, if possible.

Thanks,

Mike

[mdroyal]

I do need to send individual records. If third party is the way to go, can anyone suggest one? I'd like to send the record WYSIWYG, if possible.

Thanks,

Mike

[mdroyal]

I do need to send individual records. If third party is the way to go, can anyone suggest one? I'd like to send the record WYSIWYG, if possible.

Thanks,

Mike

[Fenton]

On Mac OS 9 there was an inexpensive shareware printer driver, PrintToPDF. You could use that to create a PDF of your layout; it would look just like it looks on-screen. Then you could attach the resulting file to an email, using the Send Mail script step.

The problem is then automating it. This can be fairly easily done with AppleScript, but I don't do OS 9 anymore. In OS X printing to PDF is built-in, so the procedure is a little different. But it's mostly about renaming/moving the pdf file to what/where the Send Mail step has set for the file to attach.

[Fenton]

On Mac OS 9 there was an inexpensive shareware printer driver, PrintToPDF. You could use that to create a PDF of your layout; it would look just like it looks on-screen. Then you could attach the resulting file to an email, using the Send Mail script step.

The problem is then automating it. This can be fairly easily done with AppleScript, but I don't do OS 9 anymore. In OS X printing to PDF is built-in, so the procedure is a little different. But it's mostly about renaming/moving the pdf file to what/where the Send Mail step has set for the file to attach.

[Fenton]

On Mac OS 9 there was an inexpensive shareware printer driver, PrintToPDF. You could use that to create a PDF of your layout; it would look just like it looks on-screen. Then you could attach the resulting file to an email, using the Send Mail script step.

The problem is then automating it. This can be fairly easily done with AppleScript, but I don't do OS 9 anymore. In OS X printing to PDF is built-in, so the procedure is a little different. But it's mostly about renaming/moving the pdf file to what/where the Send Mail step has set for the file to attach.

[Linuszbt]

I use a plugin from dacons.net called 'mailit' and it works great in producing emails (with or without attachments) from FM7 (also available for FM6 i think). We run a rather large set of databases using it.