Aha! I didn't know that curl did SMTP.
Thanks Matthias (and thanks Douglas, SwithMail looks like a good alternative).
Ben
On 16/07/2021 15:32, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
You could send out the emails with the command line tool curl using LC's shell
function.
https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/smtp
So instead of calling the libSMTP library you create the email according to RFC
to have correct smtp headers and sent it using curl through the shell()
function.
That's the way how i did it at the time when tsNET was not yet released and i
needed to send emails using TLS.
As 6.7.1 does not contain any of the mime library, you need to create the the
raw email manually.
This lesson here
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4070/l/8184-sending-emails-from-livecode-server-scripts
explains how to send emails from Livecode Server scripts. The
Please have a look at the sections about 'Formatting Email Headers' and 'Adding
Attachments'. That information should give you a clue how to create the data
correctly.
Regards,
Matthias
Am 16.07.2021 um 16:08 schrieb Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
A very venerable app (original version perhaps 15 years ago) is still running
on a client's Windows box, every night, processing data and emailing a report.
The email is sent using Shao Sean's libSMTP library, which has performed
faithfully for all these years. Unfortunately, the client's replacing their
local smtp server with outlook365.com - which requires TLS authentication -
which I don't believe libSMTP supports.
The current version of the app is built in LiveCode 6.7.11. There is a huge
amount of text to be processed, and - as you might imagine after this long
development, with regular changes and additions - the processing is very
complex. A few years ago I did look at rebuilding it in LC 8/9, but because of
the changes to unicode handling there was a lot of perturbation in the data,
and there wasn't time/budget to track all this down in order to get a
reasonable new version. I still occasionally need to make tweaks to the
processing, but I do that in my trusty LC 6.7.11.
So now I've hit a problem. There still isn't budget for a major exercise to
rebuild it in a modern version of LiveCode, so I can't just switch to using
tsNet.
Is it theoretically possibly to tweak libSMTP to work with TLS, or is there
some basic limitation with LC 6.7 that would make that impossible? Are there
any other libraries that work with TLS? Or (I'm not a Windows person) is there
some simple way I could set up a local SMTP server on the Windows box that
would accept the email from my LiveCode app and forward it to outlook365?
Any suggestions or experience gratefully received.
Ben
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