It appears that the increased interest in net security has prompted both Microsoft and Qualcomm to block calls from external applications to the current versions of their email clients (Outlook [Express] and Eudora, respectively). If you're sending email through ebase it's likely that an upgrade to the current version will break the email function. I have heard of several discussions recently about non-functioning email that can be traced to email program upgrades. I have started recommending plug-ins to circumvent this problem. Enough people have asked about it that this note on the list is warranted.
The version 2 developers have despaired of making email work reliably with the variety of email clients with their security schemes, and have opted to use a FileMaker plug-in called SMTPit to make email possible. Plug-ins extend the capability of FileMaker in various ways, including processing SMTP and POP email protocol. There are two which you can use to send email directly from FileMaker (and therefore ebase) using either Mac or Windows operating systems. The one chosen by the ebase crew is SMTPit, published by Comm-Unity Networking Systems. http://www.smtpit.com/ The recommendation by the ebase developer team is pretty strong (this is only my observation, of course, not an express endorsement by TechRocks). Also, if you intend to move to version 2, you'll already have experience with this plug-in. The associated plug-in to enable receiving email and populating FileMaker records directly is POP3it. Price is $65 for SMTPit, and $104 for both SMTPit and POPit. There is another email plug-in available on both platforms. It's called MailIt, and is published by Dacons, http://www.dacons.net Both the SMTP (send mail) and POP (receive mail) functions are included in this plug-in. Price is $59. I have installed and configured both plug-ins and both are pretty simple to set up once you catch on to the concept of using external functions to assemble text into the format of a standard email message. In both cases, a license would be needed for each machine used to send email from ebase. -- -- Dave Shaw H4 Consulting tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
