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 Software<http://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
