At 11:37 AM -0500 12/4/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello there, I have recently starting using the ebase program and
>would like to use the fax and email options, however, our
>organization does not use Eudora or Faxaway, we use instead
>Microsoft outlook, and Winfax. If anyone out there uses either of
>these, and could tell me how to set up ebase to use them, please
>lend me a hand!
Here's a message posted just today by Matt Scholtz which talks about
setting up an email client.
At 1:25 PM -0800 12/4/00, Matthew Scholtz wrote:
>Well, it just sends it out as a MAPI object, so you need to have a
>MAPI-enabled email client or server running (or executable). If you
>don't, Filemaker will not recognize the fact.
>
>So you're saying that you've never gotten an email to work through
>ebase? Sounds like an email client issue, not a Filemaker or ebase
>issue.
>
>In that case, go into Eudora, click on Tools>Options, and scroll
>down to MAPI. In the MAPI options, make sure the setting for "Use
>Eudora MAPI server" is not set to "Never". The difference between
>"always" or "While Eudora is running", is that "Always" will pop up
>Eudora if you send an email from FMP, even if it's not already open.
>I'm using Eudora v3, newer versions may have different lingo, but
>the setting options should be more or less the same.
I don't think there is a workaround for using another fax program.
The problem is getting the merge addresses to the right copy. Faxaway
is an external service that ebase is set up to work with.
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
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