RE: [DUG]: Simple Email

[Stacey Verner]

Do not use the netmasters components. Instead use Indy (TIDSmtp from http://www.nevrona.com/Indy/Download.html). Its pretty easy to send emails using this. There are a few issues that I have found, but they are nothing to do with the component. The main one is that if you are sending a message to another user on the same exchange server (we were) then exchange does not generate a message_id, which we need when we pick it up.   Recieving can be a little more frustrating. We have one system where two systems communicate via attachments in email. One of the other systems is sending the message UU encoded, rather than mime. Indy doesn't decode this automatically, but it provides tools to do it.   I came in the project without much knowledge about email systems, but it is fairly easy to learn. Just don't expect it to be a walk in the park. As an estimation, it took about 3 hours to sort out sending, and about 30 hours to recieve emails, and process them effectively. This includes loading the data into the database and that sort of thing.   Stacey -----Original Message----- From: Mark Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 8 December 2000 4:56 a.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Simple Email Hi   I need to be able to generate from within my app a fixed format Email containing a subject line, no message, but with an attached text file.   I'm using D5 Pro.   Is this fraught with difficulties for the inexperienced?   If not, can any one give me some simple pointers?   What components are involved? What are the steps that have to be taken and in what order? What bits of information (communications) do I need?   There doesn't seem to be any items in the Delphi documents that leap out and say "This is what you're looking for!" Maybe it's all hiding behind the Web jargon.   Can anyone point me to an example?   TVMIA   Mark