David beat me to it! I couldn't get an example working...
I had a couple other things to mention though...
I *think* that if your personal mail server allows it, you can hardcode
your mail server in the application. No need to know *their* mail
server IP or port. I think you could also put your own e-mail address
and password as the sender and recipient?
Also, there are hundreds of pre-made, free web forms out there. ASP,
CGI, etc. If you're running behind on time, you might be able to whip
one up in a matter of minutes providing that your web server (if you
have one) allows these scripts to run. Most of them are simply editable
text files that have configuration sections where you would enter mail
server IPs, user name, password...and all of them would be your own
information. No need to gather theirs except what the fill into your
form.
Good luck!
-----Original Message-----
From: gettingstarted-bounces at lists dot realsoftware dot com
[mailto:gettingstarted-bounces at lists dot realsoftware dot com] On Behalf Of
David Austin
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 9:34 AM
To: Getting Started
Subject: Re: Email: finding address, port, username, password
On Oct 28, 2004, at 9:41 PM, <barrylum at bellsouth dot net> wrote:
> ...
> Unfortunately, the users get confused when I
> say for them to attach the file to an email and send it to me. You'd
> be surprised how may people have never done anything like this before
> this before. One director said, "This is incredibly hard!" I'd like to
> automate the process.
Maybe try- keep it simple and construct the message in their email
software.
Try this to see what I'm talking about.
dim address, subject, body, cr as string
address = "jdoe at acme dot com"
subject = "This is the Subject"
body = "This is the body."
showurl "mailto:"+address+"?subject="+subject+"&body="+body
You can attach files also. Do a search in the archives for "showUrl
mailto" and I think you'll find what you need.
--
David
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