Hi folks,
I've just run (figuratively) into a brick wall which I wasn't expecting.
Hopefully someone has some tips or pointers.....
I have a Delphi applet which supports RF guns (one instance per gun), and
my customer has just asked me to include an email capability in it. Not a
full-blown email capability, but the ability to send a bunch of stuff to a
pre-determined address via a pre-determined server when thwe user of the gun
does something in particular.
It sounds easy, and I thought it was. I set the whole shebang up at home,
and using Indy have managed to fulfill what I perceived to be the
requirement. Using Indy, I was using SMTP to sent the stuff (including
attachments) through one mail server (IHUG) to another (CLEAR) and it seemed
to work fine.
Now I discover that the customer has a private network, they use Outlook
for email, and none of the machines that run the applets supporting the RF
guns have Outlook installed. The guy running the company's servers says
that they do have an SMTP server running somewhere, but since no-one uses
it, no-one bothers to make sure that it is running all of the time.
My experience with Outlook is virtually nil, and I think that the server
guy's experience with SMTP is just as expansive. Is it a big deal to get an
SMTP server to feed into Outlook? Are there security issues?
TIA
Trevor
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