Yes, Ben... I agree with you. The frustration is that, in testing both
Shao's library and Sarah's with one client in particular (120 Mac's), we
couldn't get either to work with their mail settings (and we tried
numerous settings). It works fine using my GoDaddy settings, so I know
the implementation is correct. If there was even a little technical help
available, perhaps one of these could be made to work. But no luck so far.
Richard
On 4/2/14 7:47 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
I'm still surprised that your original approach of doing SMTP directly
from inside LC wasn't sucessful.
I have an app that does data transformation jobs on a regularly
scheduled basis, and sends reports via email. I coded it many years
ago, basing this part on Shao Shen's libSMTP; with simple
configuration options for SMTP server, port, auth type, username and
password; and since then it's been deployed by a number of different
clients, and we've always been able to configure it successfully to
work with the mail server in their environment.
For home users, maybe you could use AppleScript to extract the
configuration from their Mail app at startup, and if necessary ask
them to confirm the details (you probably have to ask them to confirm
the password even in the best case); for corporate users getting the
details of their mail server may have to be part of the (one time for
the organisation) configuration. But once you have the configuration,
taking this approach feels more robust, since it doesn't require using
AppleScript to work with a third-party piece of software which may
change outside your control (Apple are rubbish at implementing their
own technology, including AppleScript, consistently) and may not
always be installed.
(On my own Mac for example, Mail is always there, because it's not
worth the trouble to deinstall it; but I've never used it in all the
years since moving to OS X. (I used to be an Outlook/Entourage user,
then I switched to Thunderbird). So your software would launch Mail,
which would then appear and ask me to configure it, I'd decline.... etc.)
My $0.02
Ben
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