Has anyone learned how to send an automatic email from FMP 9 to Zimbra? Zimbra is a browser based email client. I assume I'll need to use the "Open URL" script step. But how will I embed the user name, password, subject, and body all in one URL?

This does it!

http://www.filemakermagazine.com/videos/automating-html-forms-using-mbs-plugin.html

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Thank you, Soren, but the client wants no plugins. . . sigh.

I have found that Zimbra:

Note that Zimbra is a self-contained package, meant to run out of the box. It bundles its own SMTP server (postfix), database (MySQL), LDAP (openldap), Web server (Apache) and application server (Tomcat)

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Doesn't it mean that you can approach the MySql base straight from filemaker via the new...

http://www.filemaker.com/support/technologies/mysql.html

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Interesting. So, you are suggesting that we connect through the ESS instead of the Web Interface. I wonder if that will work.

Thanks for the idea!

Mike