Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Peter Haworth wrote: I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the url?: on mouseUp put some...@somewhere.com into tAddress put Hello! into tSubject put This is the bodycrof the email. into tBody put mailto:; tAddress ? \ subject= tSubject \ body= tBody into tEmailURL launch url tEmailURL end mouseUp I use this to have customers send bug reports, and I can grab the OS version, my app's version, screenRect, and other useful info along with the relevant portion of the executionContexts all within the size limit on the URL passed to most email clients. So far the only really restrictive client I've come across in years is GMail, which apparently allows only ~512 chars; everything else our users have tested on allows at least 1k, which has been plenty to get the info I need from them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
On 09/14/2012 08:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the url?: on mouseUp put some...@somewhere.com into tAddress put Hello! into tSubject put This is the bodycrof the email. into tBody put mailto:; tAddress ? \ subject= tSubject \ body= tBody into tEmailURL launch url tEmailURL end mouseUp I use this to have customers send bug reports, and I can grab the OS version, my app's version, screenRect, and other useful info along with the relevant portion of the executionContexts all within the size limit on the URL passed to most email clients. So far the only really restrictive client I've come across in years is GMail, which apparently allows only ~512 chars; everything else our users have tested on allows at least 1k, which has been plenty to get the info I need from them. This script causes unexpected problems here. It launches KMail on my system despite my having Thunderbird properly set as the default system email client. What happens if no desktop client is being used? (I honestly don't know, I have never been one of those people who use web-based mail.) Can one be assured that that behavior will be consistent? A second problem on my system, running Linux, is that the body is not inserted into the message. This seems to be related to the number of parameters the system will pass to the email client. It accepts only two, apparently. So, recipient's address + (pick one: cc, subject OR body). revMail also behaves exactly this way here. Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Warren Samples wrote: On 09/14/2012 08:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the url?: on mouseUp put someone at somewhere.com into tAddress put Hello! into tSubject put This is the bodycrof the email. into tBody put mailto:; tAddress ? \ subject= tSubject \ body= tBody into tEmailURL launch url tEmailURL end mouseUp ... This script causes unexpected problems here. It launches KMail on my system despite my having Thunderbird properly set as the default system email client. What happens if no desktop client is being used? (I honestly don't know, I have never been one of those people who use web-based mail.) Can one be assured that that behavior will be consistent? A second problem on my system, running Linux, is that the body is not inserted into the message. This seems to be related to the number of parameters the system will pass to the email client. It accepts only two, apparently. So, recipient's address + (pick one: cc, subject OR body). revMail also behaves exactly this way here. Those are all good points, but I suspect there would be even more issues trying to get consistent behavior with managing the OS mechanism for copy-and-paste into email clients on all those platforms. Probably the most reliable method would be to write a quick CGI to receive the data, and have the dialog stack post it there over HTTP. That seems to be how this sort of thing is handled most often. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Thanks Richard, I will give that a try. Thanks also to Warren for pointing out the potential problems. Probably a CGI script (as mentioned in a later email from Richard) would be the safest way to go but I'd be starting from ground zero on how to do that. Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Peter Haworth wrote: I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Maybe I'm coming in late to this thread, but if the body of the email is less than 1k have you considered just sending it along as a param in the url?: on mouseUp put some...@somewhere.com into tAddress put Hello! into tSubject put This is the bodycrof the email. into tBody put mailto:; tAddress ? \ subject= tSubject \ body= tBody into tEmailURL launch url tEmailURL end mouseUp I use this to have customers send bug reports, and I can grab the OS version, my app's version, screenRect, and other useful info along with the relevant portion of the executionContexts all within the size limit on the URL passed to most email clients. So far the only really restrictive client I've come across in years is GMail, which apparently allows only ~512 chars; everything else our users have tested on allows at least 1k, which has been plenty to get the info I need from them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web __**__** ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecodehttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
No you are not the only one. But I have decided some time ago that the reason for this is that our original estimate of what it takes to accomplish a task is largely an illusion, due to our ability to imagine. What it actually took to accomplish any given task is what it is when we look back in retrospect. That is why experience is such a huge advantage in any line of work (says the aging man who's sick of these youngsters around here thinking they can do his job just as well). Bob On Sep 14, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Richard, I will give that a try. Thanks also to Warren for pointing out the potential problems. Probably a CGI script (as mentioned in a later email from Richard) would be the safest way to go but I'd be starting from ground zero on how to do that. Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! Pete ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Peter Haworth wrote: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! That question came up just last night at a programmer meetup. Everyone present agreed that it's just the nature of the task. Like Bob said, it's not a failure of any given tool or language, just a failure of the imagination to conceive of all of the possible issues with the many disparate subsystems any project will encounter on its way to completion. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
I wasn't blaming the tools by any means. I guess eventually, you build up a library of infrastructure tools (license checking, delivery mechanisms, bug reporting, etc) just as you do with code libraries so it becomes less of a headache. I'll freely admit I'm my own worst enemy in this because I invariably leave these things to the last minute in favour of concentrating on functionality and UI. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Peter Haworth wrote: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! That question came up just last night at a programmer meetup. Everyone present agreed that it's just the nature of the task. Like Bob said, it's not a failure of any given tool or language, just a failure of the imagination to conceive of all of the possible issues with the many disparate subsystems any project will encounter on its way to completion. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/**FourthWorldSyshttp://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecodehttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'll freely admit I'm my own worst enemy in this because I invariably leave these things to the last minute in favour of concentrating on functionality and UI. The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
I like that! On Sep 14, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On Sep 14, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'll freely admit I'm my own worst enemy in this because I invariably leave these things to the last minute in favour of concentrating on functionality and UI. The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Peter Haworth pete@... writes: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! ...and that's what frameworks and object factories are for. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Mark Wieder wrote: Peter Haworth pete at ... writes: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! ...and that's what frameworks and object factories are for. And what do you do when you stumble across a bug in the framework? ;) How long will it take to even isolate the bug well enough to identify that it's in the framework? Code is complex stuff... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Yes, but I'm thinking more of things like: - setting up a web site - making non-zip files downloadable - enabling some sort of demo/licensing scheme that's not subject to hacking within 5 minutes - setting up a method of reporting bugs - code signing Mac apps - making a .dmg file for Macs - making a .pkg file for Macs - making a .msi file for Windows - making a pdf user manual that has navigation bookmarks in it I've figured out asll those things now (just about!) but if I'd love to know if there's a framework that would have helped me with them all! Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.netwrote: Peter Haworth pete@... writes: Am I the only one that feels like I spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out solutions to problems that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of whatever product I'm working on!?!?! ...and that's what frameworks and object factories are for. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 21:44 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I notice that revMail does not have a way to attach a file to the email it creates. Is there perhaps a plugin or library that will provide that functionality? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Thanks Matthias, I'll take a look. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 21:44 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I notice that revMail does not have a way to attach a file to the email it creates. Is there perhaps a plugin or library that will provide that functionality? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Looks like that won't help. The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on each user's machine and I don't know in advance what it is, her stack won't help me unfortunately. Any other suggestions? I can embed the information in the body of the email instead of in an attachment so not hugely important. Or I could just rewrite my app to run on iPhone/Android, then I could use the commands provided by LC for those platforms :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 21:44 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I notice that revMail does not have a way to attach a file to the email it creates. Is there perhaps a plugin or library that will provide that functionality? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Peter, you could try to use the smtp server which is responsible for your emailaddress. Your server normally will accept emails for your emailaddress. I write normally, because there are cases where this will not work. For example if your smtp server uses reverse dns to check the sender. Another option would be to let your app post that data to a php or livecodeserver script, which then does the sending. But wouldn´t it be better to let the user send the email manually? You could let your app put the desired data into the clipboard and let revmail open the email editor. You could then instruct the user to paste the content of the clipboard into the editor window. i, for one would love to know when a software is sending data or is phoning home. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 23:21 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: Looks like that won't help. The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on each user's machine and I don't know in advance what it is, her stack won't help me unfortunately. Any other suggestions? I can embed the information in the body of the email instead of in an attachment so not hugely important. Or I could just rewrite my app to run on iPhone/Android, then I could use the commands provided by LC for those platforms :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 21:44 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I notice that revMail does not have a way to attach a file to the email it creates. Is there perhaps a plugin or library that will provide that functionality? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Am 14.09.2012 um 00:14 schrieb Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de: Your server normally will accept emails for your emailaddress. Of course your server accept email to your address. It was meant to be Your server normally will accept emails to your address without authentication. Regards, MAtthias ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
On 09/13/2012 04:21 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on each user's machine and I don't know in advance what it is, her stack won't help me unfortunately. Any other suggestions? I can embed the information in the body of the email instead of in an attachment so not hugely important. Or I could just rewrite my app to run on iPhone/Android, then I could use the commands provided by LC for those platforms:-) Pete lcSQL Softwarehttp://www.lcsql.com You can expect unexpected problems using either SMTP or using revMail. Port blocking may require the use of nonstandard ports for SMTP and not everyone will have a desktop email client set up. You could use an SMTP relay service and provide the address and credentials yourself. Some SMTP relay services allow you to use non-standard ports. Some of them are quite inexpensive for low volume use, so that could help cover some scenarios if you're really determined to use SMTP. The server side script solution is far less problematic. You could also look into a script that stores the info in a database and you collect it manually. Good Luck, Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Can you use On-Rev for mail sending? On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 09/13/2012 04:21 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on each user's machine and I don't know in advance what it is, her stack won't help me unfortunately. Any other suggestions? I can embed the information in the body of the email instead of in an attachment so not hugely important. Or I could just rewrite my app to run on iPhone/Android, then I could use the commands provided by LC for those platforms:-) Pete lcSQL Softwarehttp://www.lcsql.com You can expect unexpected problems using either SMTP or using revMail. Port blocking may require the use of nonstandard ports for SMTP and not everyone will have a desktop email client set up. You could use an SMTP relay service and provide the address and credentials yourself. Some SMTP relay services allow you to use non-standard ports. Some of them are quite inexpensive for low volume use, so that could help cover some scenarios if you're really determined to use SMTP. The server side script solution is far less problematic. You could also look into a script that stores the info in a database and you collect it manually. Good Luck, Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
All good ideas. Also, I'm not sending emails invisibly. The option to email support gathers all the environment info and supplies it to revMail as the message with a few blank lines at the top for the user to give details of the problem. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, you could try to use the smtp server which is responsible for your emailaddress. Your server normally will accept emails for your emailaddress. I write normally, because there are cases where this will not work. For example if your smtp server uses reverse dns to check the sender. Another option would be to let your app post that data to a php or livecodeserver script, which then does the sending. But wouldn´t it be better to let the user send the email manually? You could let your app put the desired data into the clipboard and let revmail open the email editor. You could then instruct the user to paste the content of the clipboard into the editor window. i, for one would love to know when a software is sending data or is phoning home. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 23:21 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: Looks like that won't help. The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on each user's machine and I don't know in advance what it is, her stack won't help me unfortunately. Any other suggestions? I can embed the information in the body of the email instead of in an attachment so not hugely important. Or I could just rewrite my app to run on iPhone/Android, then I could use the commands provided by LC for those platforms :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 21:44 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I notice that revMail does not have a way to attach a file to the email it creates. Is there perhaps a plugin or library that will provide that functionality? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Sending an email with a file attachment
Thanks Warren. I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.uswrote: On 09/13/2012 04:21 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on each user's machine and I don't know in advance what it is, her stack won't help me unfortunately. Any other suggestions? I can embed the information in the body of the email instead of in an attachment so not hugely important. Or I could just rewrite my app to run on iPhone/Android, then I could use the commands provided by LC for those platforms:-) Pete lcSQL Softwarehttp://www.lcsql.com You can expect unexpected problems using either SMTP or using revMail. Port blocking may require the use of nonstandard ports for SMTP and not everyone will have a desktop email client set up. You could use an SMTP relay service and provide the address and credentials yourself. Some SMTP relay services allow you to use non-standard ports. Some of them are quite inexpensive for low volume use, so that could help cover some scenarios if you're really determined to use SMTP. The server side script solution is far less problematic. You could also look into a script that stores the info in a database and you collect it manually. Good Luck, Warren __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecodehttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
