Sending an email with a file attachment

[Warren Samples]

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