you can try finding the email address of a given user like that
my machine name here is kevin.kplab.com but my email addy isnt
[EMAIL PROTECTED], nor [EMAIL PROTECTED] its
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
you dont know if sendmail is running on localhost, nor if the mail server they
ACTUALY use shares a primany domain with the localhost.
best just to ask, although it would be nice to see the programme make an
educated guess.
robin-david hammond
lead systems engineer
KPL
From: andu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Implementing mailto: Mac
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 19:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Thanks to Dave and Sjoerd for arriving at the elegant 2-line solution on a PC:
>
>put word 1 to -2 of \
>
>queryRegistry("hkey_local_machine\software\classes\mailto\shell\open\command
>\") \
> into tBrowserPath
>launch "mailto:"&tAddress with tBrowserPath
I think originally you wanted to do this within MC. I just found out there is
nslookup for windows (probably a port from Linux) which can be called with
"shell()"
and return the mail server given the domain name([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Nslookup is here: http://www.trumphurst.com/dnsocx/nslookup.exe
and the dos commands are :
Using nslookup, you can find the email server of your domain, as shown in the
sample session below.
Start a MS-DOS command prompt (in our case we use shell()) and type the
nslookup command:
C:\> nslookup
Default Server: youserver.yourdomain
Address: X.X.X.X
> set type=MX
> microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger =
mail1.microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger =
mail2.microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 30, mail exchanger =
mail3.microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 40, mail exchanger =
mail4.microsoft.com
microsoft.com MX preference = 50, mail exchanger =
mail5.microsoft.com
The lowest preference indicates the best (primary) mail server. A mailer
would try it first and if it
cannot connect to this server, it would use other servers (by order of
preference).
>
>Now... Does anyone have the AppleEvent equivalent for a Mac?
I also found a perl script which gets the mail server name from
InternetConfig. It just needs to be translated into Metatalk:
use Mac::InternetConfig;
print $InternetConfig{kICSMTPHost()};
I tested it and it works I just don't know perl ;-)
>
>/H
>Hugh Senior
XIIdigitation, n.:
The practice of trying to determine the year a movie was made
by deciphering the Roman numerals at the end of the credits.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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