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.us>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<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
