Hi. I am brand new to Filemaker. I need to setup SMTP in XP for filemaker to send email of problems. Can I do this setup via Outlook or must it be done elsewhere. Thanks for any help

Hello MsChiff6,

Regarding sending emails, you can do in several ways. If you want to integrated with Outlook, then, you need to set up the Outlook first and then configure the FileMaker.

Here is the topic related to Outlook:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/191335/post/276398/#276398

However, I believe that there are some other ways to do it beside using outlook. If I am not mistaken, someone in the forum mentioned about Scodigo PHP Plugins. Maybe you can search and maybe using that plugins to send the email. You can do some searching with keywords "+SMTP", "+Email", "+Outlook" or combinations of those keywords.

Also, other expert FM's members can also enlighten about this issue...

Thank you for getting involved.

If I setup outlook for email - can FM Pro

automatically access the email.

Hello again,

What do you mean by accessing email? Do you mean FM will send the email? The way it works as far as I know using Outlook, we will make it the email (contents and email address of destination) then, I would use Vb Script to send it to the Outlook. So, outlook will automatically send your email. ClickYes would be helpful if your Outlook client will show "warning message."

If you want to integrate Outlook with your solution, you can go to "Productive Computer, Inc." and look for more information about Outlook. Here is the link:

https://www.productive.cc/pci_cart/FMPro?-db=PCSC_Products.FP5&-Format=productshome.htm&-Lay=CGI&-View

Hope it helps...

I am not sure what is easiest. Can I have filemaker send an email without setting up outlook or outlook express. Directly from within FM? Is there a number I can call you at?

Thanks

There is no way to send an email directly from Filemaker. You need some sort of email client (Outlook etc) or an SMTP plug-in for Filemaker.

Well, with FM 9 anyway, you can render HTML directly from a field in a web viewer - and with PHP you can send HTML... though it wouldn't go through the email client.

I got the above quote from Genx (Alex). Well, he will be the one who can explain the method using PHP stuff.

About the easiest, it depends. The easiest way for me is using Outlook for sending email. Maybe some other people use different method that they think would be easier for them...

More information about Email, I got more information and knowledge about sending email from this:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/188017/

Hope this helps you...

If I do setup Outlook - (that I can do easily)

can FM automatically interface with it or do I need some third party add on?

Hello,

Please read the link I gave you. The way I did it by using VB Script (to do it automatically). However, if you just want to do it manually, please see on the Script Menu "Send Mail" option. You can write it directly all the information that you needed.

The the things is what do you want to do for the email? Is it to send automatically? Or you need to press a button (contain script) and send to a specific email address?