Sending email with Run BASIC

I am using the HttpClient object. I haven't had a chance to do much in the last couple of days.

-Carl

Now that we have such a nice smtp mailer, it would be cool if RB would allow encoding to BASE64, to allow file attachments without the need of using any external program. Cause then it could be done on the fly, without first writing the file to the disc, converting it, writing it again, reading it again and then finally appending it the right way to the email.... Would require buffering though...

Yes, this is a natural next step.

-Carl

That's great!!! :)
And don't forget the other natural next step! ;)
Adding pop3 capabilities... also with base64 functionality...
Need to fetch emails from an account, extract subject, text and attached pics and then delete the email from the server...

Hmmmm.... am just experimenting with the smtp sender and found something missing for real world usage. It would be cool to also be able to define the senders "real name" to the smtp function, as not sending the realname along in an email header causes most emailservers to flag this email as spam.

The SMTP sender object is a little thin right now, I agree. We will flesh it out in time. I will try to add the realname for the next release.

-Carl

How are things going with adding the realname feature to the SMTP handler?? ... and adding a pop3 handler??
Already solved the base64 issue..... So no need to add this natively to RB. The shell function and some base64 command line tool works just fine! :)
Just the realname thing to avoid spamfiltering and pop3 support would be perfect for the next release.

This should be no problem.

No promises on this for the next release. I'm sure it'll come, but not right away.

Maybe there is an external tool you can use to read POP3 mail in the meanwhile?

-Carl

Yes there is! :) GetMail does it all now.. including extraction of attachement. :)

This is very cool indeed.. I've been playing around with it with no luck at all.. What piece of the puzzle am I missing? Do I also need to be running a mail server? Is anyone hosting from home able to use this feature, or is this strictly for hosted sites? I'm only looking to send email from a form. As in refer a friend type form..

You need to have an SMTP mail server to point Run BASIC at. You don't have to run the server on your own hardware (I don't).

-Carl

You mean like like google, yahoo or aol? Not sure about the last 2 but I read somewhere that you can use google for this. But google at least requires authentication and a port number, how would I pass those? Doesn't look like I can right now, maybe some future version.. Are you using some other service? Could you post a code snip with your passwords removed of course :)

Thanks Carl!

Look at the sendemail example project.

-Carl

You can use your account information of your ISP, there is no need to use any free mail accounts.

Thanks Stefan, that did the trick. I've been using the same ISP for 5 years and never signed up for their email services until today. My form works perfectly now and was super easy to code. I was avoiding using my ISP info in my RB code because I'd like to switch my ISP in march, and for privacy reasons as well. I'd still like to use Google or AOL for this however. Maybe when I have closer a look at the SendEmail program that Votan posted in another thread I might still be able to do that..

Thanx!