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    #1

    Email Tutorial?

    Hi All,

    Is there a tutorial to demonstrate and show how, to set up the Email and send replies to either the user and/or administrator?
    Regards
    Keith Hubert
    Alpha Guild Member
    London.
    KHDB Management Systems
    Skype = keith.hubert


    For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!
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    #2
    Re: Email Tutorial?

    The afas/supplied WAS samples are a start...

    REALLY depends in what context you want to use it though: http://afas.alphasoftware.com/Sample.../sendEmail.a5w

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      #3
      Re: Email Tutorial?

      see the
      email_send() and email_send2() functions
      i like beter the email_send2()
      you can even send html messages
      Cheers
      Mauricio

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        #4
        Re: Email Tutorial?

        Hi Andrea,

        The context I'm looking for, is when someone registers and an email is sent to thank them, and an email is sent to the administrator advising that a new person has registered.
        Regards
        Keith Hubert
        Alpha Guild Member
        London.
        KHDB Management Systems
        Skype = keith.hubert


        For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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          #5
          Re: Email Tutorial?

          Hi Keith,

          Here is what I do. I have a dialog where the user registers and then I go to a code only page with a bunch of processing code, but as part of that code, here is what I do to send myself an email telling me that a new user just registered:

          '''''send an email to myself notifying me of the new user who just registered

          dim tblr as p
          tblr=table.open("[pathalias.adb_path]\registration")
          query.filter="userid='"+session.userid+"'"
          query.order=""
          query.options=""
          tblr.query_create()

          e_to="[email protected]"
          e_subj="A new user just registered"
          e_msg="<html>A new user just registered. Here are the details:"+"<br><br>"
          e_msg=e_msg+"User ID: "+tblr.userid+"<br>"
          e_msg=e_msg+"Email: "+tblr.Email+"</html>"

          tblr.close()

          'email_send(e_to,e_subj,e_msg)

          vTo = e_to
          dim pm as P
          dim ps as P
          dim email_result as l
          flag = email_smtp_open(ps, "smtp.aol.com", 25, "advancedsolns", "yourpassword goes here")
          if flag = .f. then
          ?"error"
          end
          end if
          pm._to = vTo
          pm.from = "[email protected]"
          pm.from_alias = "AdvancedSolns"
          pm.subject = e_subj
          pm.attachments = "a file name can go here"
          pm.html_message = e_msg
          email_result = email_smtp_send(pm, ps)
          email_smtp_close(ps)

          Notice that I was using email_send(), but I have added additional code that Selwyn recommended that works more reliably on the remote server because it does not depend on an email profile.

          Gary
          Gary S. Traub, Ph.D.

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            #6
            Re: Email Tutorial?

            Keith,

            I do something similar. This is from a membership application. I use email_send2() with the profile, and it's never given me any trouble. In this case I'm sending 3 individual emails.


            Code:
             
'==== send email
Dim vResult as L
Dim vMessage as P
vMessage.To="[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]"
vMessage.Subject="WSAHQ New Member"
if alltrim(CurrentForm.Controls.vJoinType.value)="new"
 vMessage.Message=session.__protected__CorpName+" has joined as a new member."
else
 vMessage.Message=session.__protected__CorpName+" has renewed their membership."
end if
vResult = email_send2(vMessage,"wsahq",.t.,.t.)
vMessage.To="[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]"
vResult = email_send2(vMessage,"wsahq",.t.,.t.)
vMessage.To="[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]"
vResult = email_send2(vMessage,"wsahq",.t.,.t.)
            You can also send one email to a list of people. In this case, the email is going to a list of people in the bcc field, and there is some other processing I left out. It's worth pointing out that the To field will take a crlf separated list, but the bcc field has to be comma separated (that cost me a few night's sleep!)

            Code:
             
ltbl=table.open("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\listings.dbf")
query.description = "Listing Changes"
query.order = ""
query.filter = "Tochange"
query.options = ""
lqry=ltbl.query_create()
vNumRecs = lqry.records_get()
if vNumRecs=0
 session.EmailResult = "There are no changes to email"
else
 vBody="The Dalhart MLS Listing changes were:"+crlf()
 ltbl.fetch_first()
 while .not. ltbl.fetch_eof()
.
.
.
   vBody=vBody+"Listing "+ltbl.Mls_number+" was changed"+crlf()
.
 .
.
end while
 lqry.drop()
 ltbl.close()
end if
if vNumRecs>0
dim vMessage as p
vMessage.To = "[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]"
vMessage.From="[EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL]"
vMessage.From_alias="Dalhart Board of Realtors"
vMessage.Subject="Dalhart MLS Listing Changes"
'==== get list of email addresses
vEmailList=table.external_record_content_get("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\realtors.dbf","alltrim(email)")+" "
vEmailList=remove_blank_lines(vEmailList)
vMessage.BCC=crlf_to_comma(vEmailList)
vMessage.Message=vBody
if email_send2(vMessage,"dbor",.f.,.f.,.f.)
 session.EmailResult="Emails were successfully sent"
else
 session.EmailResult="Emails could not be sent. Please try again later."
end if
end if
            Pat
            Pat Bremkamp
            MindKicks Consulting

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              #7
              Re: Email Tutorial?

              Thanks Guys,

              I will try and digest the sample code.

              Pat, I see that you have used "session.__protected__CorpName", will that get picked up from the Security Framework?
              Regards
              Keith Hubert
              Alpha Guild Member
              London.
              KHDB Management Systems
              Skype = keith.hubert


              For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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                #8
                Re: Email Tutorial?

                Originally posted by Keith Hubert View Post
                Hi Andrea,

                The context I'm looking for, is when someone registers and an email is sent to thank them, and an email is sent to the administrator advising that a new person has registered.
                The WAS samples have plenty of samples for both registration and sending email

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                  #9
                  Re: Email Tutorial?

                  Keith,

                  The protected session variable could come from the security framework, but in this case, I have the person either enter or select a company name. Since the prior processing requires them to pay on-line for the membership, I haven't had trouble with bogus entries.

                  Pat
                  Pat Bremkamp
                  MindKicks Consulting

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