> Dear co-listers, > > I am working on a Project and iīm facing a problem. In my app i > have to send an email through Director. The point is i could not find > how to do this. I know i can put a link mailto into Lingo, but that > would open my email clien and what i want is to send the mail via Lingo, > without outlook, OE ar any other app getting in the way, so, is there a > way to open a network connection and send the email via Lingo?, do i > need an Xtra? Which one? (so many questions...). The other thing is i > have to send an HTML mail. Regarding this, i think i can compose the > HTML code using text and variables and assigning the whole thing to a > HUGE variable something like "the_mail=<html>$mail_code&<html>", is this > approach correct. If i use images, should i attach the images to the > mail? How do i do this?, īcause i donīt want to to have to download > something over the net in order to see the pics (again, so many > questions...)
Your best bet would be to write a server-side script to send out the email formatted as HTML. You can use Lingo to pass the text to the server-side script if necessary. You might want to look for email components if ur email traffice is going to be really high...eg sending bulk mail, etc.. Regards, Anand Ravi [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
