Re: [DUG]: Simple Email

[Mark Howard]

OK Thanks to those who replied.  Given that I am of Scottish ancestry (and my needs are very modest) I am going to try initially with the FREE stuff bundled with D5  ie TNMSMTP.   I tried the option 1 described below and all I got was zillions of IE windows filling my screen - until I killed the process.   Now - I've found a fairly detailed example of the use of the TNMSMTP component (above) in the Help system but have some questions. Host property - would this be, say "smtp.xtra.co.nz"?  If not where should I look to find it (I'm using Outlook Express) UserID - what are they referring to here? Where do I look to find this? PostMessage.ToAddress.Text - I've just put in my own email address.   The component should just need these 3 properties set to be able to establish a connection, but it bombs with a message saying "Null remote address".   Any ideas?   Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: Wilfred Verkley To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:56 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Simple Email There are two kinds of mail components.  Client based ones that work using mail client (using MAPI or something like Outlook OLE Automation), and server based ones which use something like SMPT that talk directly to the mail server.   Client based components usually have better integration with things like the address book plus they leave a history of all mail sent in the outbox.  Server based ones are far simpler, dont require a mail client to be installed, or a user to be logged in, and their much faster and efficient.   A common MAPI component for delphi ive seen is TEMail (http://www.econos.de/software/borland/index.html).  Ive used this for a few apps here at gen-i without any problems.   For the simple stuff you want to do, the FastNet TNMSMTP component is probably more then adequete.  We use this here for a simple report generator & mail-out program and it does the job just fine.  For more advanced stuff like mail-merges for the marketing dept we use JMail which is pretty much the best and most popular SMTP mail component out there (http://www.dimac.net).    -----Original Message----- From: Mark Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 4:56 AM 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 This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal at www.gen-i.co.nz This e-mail message has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.gen-i.co.nz