on the topic of eMails (was Re: 1st time Revolution user question)

[Alcy]

Wow.. I find this mailing list very helpful thank you all.
*** (thanks Jacqueline for directing me to it) ***
Some of you have requested me to precise my needs:
I am using Windows XP and am building a database management system and I 
would like it to be able to communicate by email, send and receive data 
for fast, convenient updates and reports from/to a group of people. So I 
need it to be able to send and receive text and html files with 
eventually some images in attachment.
And I need it to be independent from any email program as I want it to 
be self sufficient and easily portable.

OK if I understand well, here is the summary of my options for sending 
and receiving emails:
1) To Send emails:
 >>>(1) Shao Sean libEmail and libSMTP libraries. Shao Sean created  
this two gems that can to lots of cool things. The libEmail will  
generate an email enclosure (will not send, but generate the chunk  that 
is the email) with MIME, Attachments and whatever you want.  libSMTP 
will take care of sending the email. It works fine! and can be found at
http://dark.unitz.ca/~shaosean/pages/development.htm
*** (Thanks Andre and Alex) ***

 >>> Another alternative that ought to work very well would be to post  
your email message to a PHP document on a web server and use the PHP  
mail command to do the actual sending. The drawback, of course, is  that 
you'd have to write a little php and have access to a web server  that 
could host the script, not to mention an smtp server that would  accept 
the message for sending. However, it's very simple to write,  and Rev 
talks nicely with web-based resources like this.
*** (Thanks Devin) ***

2) To receive emails:
 >>> Alex did that (on RevOnline under his username alextweedly). 
Sarah's library was very helpful - can be found from URL Andre gave 
(http://www.troz.net/Rev/index.html)
Sarah's library is purely a POP3 library - it doesn't cover MIME decoding
*** (Thanks Andre and Alex) ***

So I understand that there will be no problem for sending emails with 
images attached and receiving text or html files without attachment but 
I will need extra coding for receiving emails with attachments.
Is that right?

Alcy