Peter If Sept 20 was the deadline then I suspect (strongly) that it was - they have a very accurate marketing division. You could get a plugin like SMTPit from CNS (http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/Plug-ins/SMTPit_Pro) and use that if the only reason to upgrade is the SMTP eMail in 11. The SMTP in 11 has some significant issues - problems with passing the "name". And when it fails you get no error other than "eMail could not be sent successfully" - which is very lame. I'd go the plugin - CNS is great, also the Dacons one (http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/). Both plugins get great reports on FMExperts and FMI TechTalk.
Stephen ---------- "Local brain outage causes havoc in the Tri-Lobes Region. Film at 11" --- anon On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Peter Payne wrote: > Hello all, thanks for this great resource for discussing Filemaker > > I am currently using Filemaker 8.5 clients and Filemaker 9 Advanced for > myself, and am considering upgrading to 11. I have a few questions if anyone > can help me out. > > First, the main reason I want to upgrade is for the ability to send email via > SMPT. My goal is to send attractive HTML formatted emails according to a > template that will look really nice, since this is really hard to do for some > reason. Is there a way to do this with Filemaker? If there's no way to format > the mail the way I want it I might just skip upgrading. Any info on this new > feature would be appreciated. > > (The current way we send pretty emails is, building them as a custom HTML > document in Safari then using the "mail contents of page" we send it out > through Mail.app. Not the most efficient way to go, and it totalyl breaks > with the Windows machines we send some mails from. Is there a better way to > send custom formatted emails, preferably through a normal mail program? Any > guidance here would be great) > > Also, I am coming from Filemaker 8.5 in some cases and would like to buy the > upgrade rather than buying new. Does anyone know if the upgrade activations > do work even though September 2010 has passed?
