Emailing from within Revolution
[without using an email client..] I've never done this, but when it looked like I was going to need to, I planned to use the mail command from the shell in Linux. Presumably OSX has this also? http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/mailattachments.html is a fairly complete account of how to do it. Seems fairly simple, you just drop into the shell and pass the command. There are also quite a few shell scripts posted if you google for them. But maybe there is a reason why this is not an intelligent solution? Peter ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Emailing from within Revolution
On 10/14/07, Paul Gabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an intermediate Revolution user, I'd like my standalone to be able > to send an email by script completely within Revolution, not, as > revMail does, require the user to explicitly send it from the email > application (in my case — Apple's Mail program). I've looked at Shao > Sean's libSMTP and Altuit's altEmailHarness, but these look rather > complicated for me and were written at the end of 2005. Is there > anything easier, more "built-in," and more recent? Thank you. An option that I have used in one app is to have the Rev program post to a CGI script on a web site. The script then uses sendmail to create an email. The advantage of this is that it doesn't need the user's own email client and it desn't require them to enter the address for an SMTP server. The data posted to the CGI script includes the "To:", "From:" & "Subject:" headers are the start, and the rest just becomes the body of the email. One caveat: my app is very low traffic. I don't know how this would scale. Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Emailing from within Revolution
Just a quick note for anyone who does look at libSMTP and thinks that it is complicated. Yes, the code to do everything is pretty complicated, but the public API is simple and there are only 3 commands that you need to learn. smtpOpen -- opens the connection to the server smtpSend -- sends the email message from your program to the mail server smtpClose -- closes the connection to the mail server I choose this method of doing it to allow for sending multiple emails, through the same server, without having to open and close a connection for each email sent. If you need a hand integrating libSMTP into your program, feel free to contact us < support AT shaosean DOT tk > -Sean ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Emailing from within Revolution
Paul, this is a basic script I use with Shao Sean's library, and which seems to work well. Note that I there is no checking/validating of the inputs, and I haven't provided for a subject line or tried to do attachments or anything... function sendAnEmail pSmtpServer, pFrom, pTo, pMsg put 0 into tries repeat until isOpen or tries > 5 put smtpOpen(pSmtpServer,"","","","") into isOpen add 1 to tries end repeat if isOpen then put smtpSend(pFrom, pTo, pMsg) into tSent put smtpClose() into tClosed return isOpen & comma & tries & comma & tSent & comma & tClosed else return "couldn't send email: " & tries && "tries" end if end sendAnEmail pSmtpServer is the outgoing server to use eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] pFrom is your email address, pTo is the recipients email address, and pMsg is, well, the message. Best, Mark On 13 Oct 2007, at 21:32, Paul Gabel wrote: As an intermediate Revolution user, I'd like my standalone to be able to send an email by script completely within Revolution, not, as revMail does, require the user to explicitly send it from the email application (in my case — Apple's Mail program). I've looked at Shao Sean's libSMTP and Altuit's altEmailHarness, but these look rather complicated for me and were written at the end of 2005. Is there anything easier, more "built-in," and more recent? Thank you. Paul Gabel___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Emailing from within Revolution
On 13 Oct 2007, at 21:32, Paul Gabel wrote: As an intermediate Revolution user, I'd like my standalone to be able to send an email by script completely within Revolution, not, as revMail does, require the user to explicitly send it from the email application (in my case — Apple's Mail program). I've looked at Shao Sean's libSMTP and Altuit's altEmailHarness, but these look rather complicated for me and were written at the end of 2005. Is there anything easier, more "built-in," and more recent? Thank you. Paul Gabel Simpler I could use too, but newer? eMail is older then almost any other still used internet technology, and hasn't changed since decades. As for different, there's also Sarah Troz's eMail library. One can find it under www.troz.net/Rev/ -- official ChatRev page: http://chatrev.bjoernke.com Chat with other RunRev developers: go stack URL "http://homepage.mac.com/bvg/chatrev1.3.rev"; ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Emailing from within Revolution
As an intermediate Revolution user, I'd like my standalone to be able to send an email by script completely within Revolution, not, as revMail does, require the user to explicitly send it from the email application (in my case — Apple's Mail program). I've looked at Shao Sean's libSMTP and Altuit's altEmailHarness, but these look rather complicated for me and were written at the end of 2005. Is there anything easier, more "built-in," and more recent? Thank you. Paul Gabel___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
