_henry_ Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hello all, I want to know if FM can send email with only required SMTP and IP address? I have a choice of OutLookExpress. I prefer not using MS outlook. Is it possible to use another software such as Eudora, etc? I would like to send mail (automatically) - without human intervention. Thank you all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I use Eudora by preference on both platforms. FileMaker bosses Eudora around quite nicely with either Send Mail or Open URL (mailto://...) approaches. Have you had problems doing so? EDITED TO ADD: it's not FileMaker that's choosing to use Outlook (if that's what you're wondering), it's your OS. You have to go into your Control Panel and tell the OS that Eudora is your MAPI-compliant email program of choice. Microsoft, creator of your OS, thinks for some reason that its own offering, Outlook Express, should be what you use. (Apple is similarly inclined to think everyone oughta be using Mail). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hello AHunter3, I haven't tried Eudora. I don't like using plugins and I would like to use freeware on my application. I will look into the Eudora and let you know if I have difficulties. Thank you. Henry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hello Ahunter3, I tried Eudora and it still asking for verification to send the email. How to bypass it directly? Your guidance is highly appreciated. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Have you set up Eudora in such a way that you can manually send your emails out via Eudora? The first time after inputting your SMTP and POP info you'll be asked to input a password. After that, that should not happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hi, Thank you for your prompt respond. I configured Eudora and set all the username and password. The thing is, when I performed send mail from FM. It was populated in Eudora like To: xxxx From: xxxx Subject: xxxx Cc: xxxxx Bcc: xxxxx Attached: xxxxx It was similar with OExpress that has this box. Then I need to manually send it. Could Eudora perform send mail automatically after I wrote a "Send Mail" function from FM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Send Mail should set up the email in such a way that the next time Eudora does its regularly scheduled fetch-and-send (get new incoming email, send out email that is queued up to go), those emails will just go out, without user intervention. See the "Checking Mail" pane on Settings, the checkbox where it says "Send on Check" should be checked and "Check for mail every ___ minutes" should be checked with a value input there. If, for example, you put 15 there, then within 15 minutes (at the latest) after Filemaker queues up the email, Eudora should send it out (and also fetch any incoming email). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 Hi, Thank you for your respond. The thing is I would put the automation on the server. I believed that Eudora will be good if someone logged on to network. Is there anyway to do this beside using Eudora or should I do this with Eudora? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I do not know what you mean by "I would put the automation on the server". Short answer is: you do not have to use Eudora; you can use any MAPI-compliant email program you wish to use, without plugins; or you can have FileMaker DIRECTLY do the email-sending without using any email client if you're willing to use a plug-in. SMTP-it is quite popular for that functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Thank you Ahunter3 for your respond... Basically, FM can send mail with two ways? First, FM can send with email client such as Eudora, MS Outlook, Outlook Express, etc. But, you need to perform "Send and Receive" task automatically every x minutes? Second way is FM can send email DIRECTLY only by using plugin such as SMTPit or SMTPit Pro? I heard from someone that actually FM has their own built it SMTP feature that does not need any email client or plugin? But I thought it was not true? Is that correct? Please advise me if there is something incomplete or incorrect information. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Hi, I do not know what you mean by "I would put the automation on the server". That would mean that I will have a server that run this program automatically. My FM will generate an imported Excel files and it will send to my email client. And my email client will do the send email automatically. That's why the reason that I would put the automation process on the server. I believed that if you want to do "Send and Receive" task for a certain length of times (minutes), you need to log in to the server, so the email client program can run? I hope I give you better explanation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Hi Ahunter3, I got a good solution. It is called "blat" (http://www.blat.net). Thank you for your help. The beauty of this is free :-) Thank you once again for your help and respond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 In order for FileMaker PRO to be prompting the generation of emails, FileMaker PRO needs to be open and running. FileMaker SERVER, which is a service that can be running with no user logged in, is not the environment that executes scripts. It's the hosting environment that serves up FileMaker database files for various people to open using FileMaker Pro. So you need to have a workstation that has FileMaker Pro on it, and Eudora on it, and a user account with all the Eudora Settings set up (POP and SMTP servers, and passwords stored), and the user does have to be logged in. If you want Filemaker Pro to generate emails as a consequence of in some kind of unattended fashion, that implies a looping script that runs in perpetuity, which in turn essentially means a dedicated workstation that no one sits at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Hi Ahunter3, I got a good solution. It is called "blat" (http://www.blat.net). Thank you for your help. The beauty of this is free :-) Thank you once again for your help and respond. Link is broken, but I'm glad you found a solution to your needs, whatever it may be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Well, as per today, I tried to see http://www.blat.net and it show: " What is Blat? Blat is a Win32 command line utility that sends eMail using SMTP or post to usenet using NNTP. " I tried with my web browser and it was not broken. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHunter3 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 You have a trailing parenthesis wrongly encoded in your URL in post #12. That's why it did not work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_henry_ Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Oops.. Apologies for that... But, I hope now you can see it right? Have a good day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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