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All,

I need to add email capability to our app, our users will be emailing invoices & statements as PDF attachments, possibly hundreds of emails at a time. This needs to work across a wide variety of platforms, i.e. XP, Vista, and Win 7 (32 & 64 bit). I can get the smtp class to send emails on my computer through port 25 and my local isp (comcast) but I cannot get it to work with gmail or yahoo.

Does anyone have an example of how to send email using the smtp class to a gmail account?

With debug turned on and using port 465 I the following in the log:
04/23/11 19:08:41: Connect Socket handle: 180
04/23/11 19:08:41: Write Socket handle: 180

and that's it. The email is never received.

In other suggestions for an email solution would be appreciated. I don't want to use mapi as most of our users won't have a mapi compliant email program on their computer. Many of our users use gmail, yahoo, or some other provider. So it needs to work with most popular isp's and those that require authentication.

I would certainly consider any 3rd party products if they meet the above requirements.

Thanks,
Randal

Hi Randal

If you do a search for GMAIL in the Fivewin for Harbour/xHarbour area you will find
a sample using GMAIL by a person named Jack. I not sure how to put the article link
in a message.

Regards

Colin

Colin:

Thanks for the suggestion. I saw this post however, the gmail example uses CDO. CDO doesn't come on Win 7. I was hoping to find a solution that was more self-contained and not require our users to download a package from MS.

What are other people doing to email enable their apps? Most users are using gmail, yahoo, etc. and require ssl/tls even if their local isp offers a non ssl/tls smtp server. Do you just make users send mail via their local isp smtp server?

Thanks,
Randal

Randal wrote:I would certainly consider any 3rd party products if they meet the above requirements.

IBTC wrote:Hi Randal,

Randal wrote:I would certainly consider any 3rd party products if they meet the above requirements.

Have a look at the SocketTools Library Edition of Catalyst Development.

Bayron wrote:Try this:

http://forums.fivetechsupport.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14663&start=30#p113518

I tested with gMail, and it works perfect.... You can use, gMail, Hotmail, etc, etc...

Randal wrote:
Do you have any experience with their products?

Randal,

I just downloaded, compiled and tested, i did not check it yet, but, I have a Windows 7 Ultimate computer, and ran perfectly, without installing anything.....

Bayron:

Do you have IIS installed? If you do a google search for CDO + Windows 7 you can find plenty of information to verify that CDO is not install on Win 7 computers by default.

Thanks,
Randal

I have found the OstroSoft SMTP Component to be very fast and reliable. The price is very reasonable also.

Gale FORd wrote:I have found the OstroSoft SMTP Component to be very fast and reliable. The price is very reasonable also.

Randal wrote:Do you have IIS installed? If you do a google search for CDO + Windows 7 you can find plenty of information to verify that CDO is not install on Win 7 computers by default.

Randal

Same for me , i use CDO without problems and i did not install anything for this.

Win 7 premium home edition 64 bits

Hth

Richard