Been
there done that. :-)
We
fudged it so that the login and all the pretty stuff including sign up and
password change / recovery is done outside of Imail on a separate IIS server.
You can even use ADO to create users in Imail by adding records to an external
database. You don't have to have a user entry in the system registry this way.
To the user its seamless but in reality we are jumping in and out of Imail's web
messaging and using it only for sending and recieving mail.
We
then ripped the templates apart and modified the login so that ASP logs straight
into the imail's login.cgi. The result is going live in a couple of weeks.
By now
you have found most of Imail's web messaging limitations with regards to ASP and
included files. On the other hand the tags it uses are very powerful. Why
re-invent the wheel.
If
only they could make a snapin for IIS that could parse the <!imail> tags
in an ASP friendly environment.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott A. Keen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] COM WrapperBasically, the reason for doing all this is, I've been tasked with building a "Hotmail.com" type web-messaging system. IMail is not a requirement, but the boss said to consider using it. However, they don't want to use the built-in templates, they want it to be ASP COM-based. I don't know what other options there are... Suggestions welcomed!Thanks Len. I'll look at the RFCs. I'm also taking a look at the Command Line stuff now, but I'd rather not make Command-Line calls from COM.. (ugh!)Scott-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] COM WrapperI haven't started using IMail yet, but I've been tasked with the job of building a COM wrapper for all of IMail's functionality.
I bet this is from a pointy beaded person, no? vbg
1) Does anyone know if this has already been done, and where to get it?
Imail has no proprietary "API" or COM object orientation.
Any pgm communicates with Imail via RFC protocols. Many of Imail' internal processes often communicate with themselves via RFC protocols.
2) Does IMail have DLLs which expose functions?
no, this is an old item on the wishlist
3) Is there documentation of IMail's functions?
See the RFC's listed in the Imail user guide .pdf.
Len
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