Email and IWP

[Ben Heneghan]

Does anyone know of a way to get full email functionality into IWP? I've looked into Dacons's Mail.it and CNS's POPit and SMTPit, but I don't think any of them are quite what I'm looking for, unless I'm overlooking something. I'm essentially wanting to marry the functionality of webmail with FileMaker.

Any suggestions?

-Ben

[Søren Dyhr]

Read this:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/182989/

--sd

[Ben Heneghan]

Thank you, I looked at that, but it's only half of the equation I'm trying to solve. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I want to not only mail out from the IWP interface, but also have the ability to receive mail into my database without having a copy of FMP with the mail.it plug-in (or POP3it) running on a client-side machine. I think that this is the more difficult part of putting together the webmail functionality, as I think it would require the FM server where my database is hosted to retrieve the email.

Any ideas or speculations on how to do that?

- Ben

[Søren Dyhr]

I would say, it's an uphill struggle, involving either the webviewer agains GMail or use a standalone applescript attached as folder action to folder where the logfile fmsa produces a trigging for say each ten loggings, since you can't use embedded applescripts under IWP. The standalone script utilizes an osax:

http://lestang.org/rubrique13.html

...and uses it to produce new records in filemaker. Thats what I've been told could done, but I have no idea how reliable the solution is as such?

--sd

[Ben Heneghan]

Thank you, Søren. I never would have thought of that, but I suppose that's one way to do it.

I've been asking around a little and contacted Dacons about their mail.it plug-in. They don't let on to it on their site, but apparently it can work as a server-side plug-in, but running in single-instance. Here's what they had to say:

Dear Ben Heneghan,

mail.it 3 plug-in can be used directly with the IWP Server, however this functionality is limited by the IWP architecture. For example, when running the plug-in under IWP, you should avoid the use of any dialogs, and avoid the use of script steps which are not web-compliant. Also you should notice that there is no way to transfer a file from IWP Client to IWP Server, so there is no way to attach a file to the outgoing message. Another problem you should be aware of, is the fact that when running under IWP, the plug-in is running in single-instance, and can not differ one IWP Client session from another, so you should make sure that all of the connection sessions you initiate are initiated and completed within one script, to make sure that session will not be altered by another IWP Client.

In order to make the plug-in work under Server IWP, you should make sure the plug-in is installed in to the proper Server location. For example, with FileMaker Server IWP on Windows platform the plug-in should be installed to:

C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerWeb Publishingpublishing-enginewpcPlugins

On MacOS the path should be:

/Library/FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/wpc/Plugins

You can find more detailed information on the plug-in installation at:

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/documentation/fmsa8_web_install.pdf

Kind regards,

Bogdan.

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Bogdan R. Boon

Programmer

Dacons LLP

http://www.dacons.net

I think I might try it out if my FM host is game. If anyone else wants to try too, I'd be curious of your results.

- Ben