Send and Recive Gmail from my FM Solution

[Fred Young]

Hi!

I got a quick question.

Is there any way to make my Filemaker solution to send and recieve emails strait from within my solution?

I need the outgoing and incoming emails to be saved like a "chat" or "log" so that i can follow the Email conversations for each and every client in my database.

There will be multiple users and they will all be using Gmail.

Really really grateful for any help I can get.

Thanks

Freddy

[MetaSys Software]

Hi Freddy,

Using send email script step you can send email using gmail account. You can also use plugins to send and receive emails. Some of the plugins as Dacons' mail.it, CND plug-ins - SMTPit Pro, Pop3it pro.

reference link

http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/faq.htm?product=SMTPit#Y8Vv5G7z

[Vaughan]

I've done a couple of these solutions. FMP and a plug-in can do this well.

One of the first thing to realise is that if you want to store the mail in the the database, then the database has to become the mail client for all the users, -- at least for those accounts that are being tracked by the database. Otherwise the mail will be in the sent folders on each of the user's computers.

[Fred Young]

Hi.

I do realize that the solution will be acting as the main email client, never mind that... I just need a way to store emails sent and received to each client so that we can track the email conversations... Plug in seems to be the only option... Sad... I really don't want to spend any more money on this solution... Any other options are most welcome.

Thanks everyone for your help so far.