Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Fri Mar 28 17:17:38 EDT 2014


Hugh,

This is for a corporate application. The owners of the business will install and control this app.

The data it is reporting only has to do with the health of the Mac it is running on. It's a maintenance program.

Richard



On 3/28/14 5:10 PM, FlexibleLearning.com wrote:
> Let me get this straight... You not only have a clandestine app running
> invisible to the User, but you also want to invisibly collect (presumably
> User) data and then email the data without the User knowing?
>
> Frankly I am not surprised you are finding it hard to get a Mac to
> cooperate. Sounds like how a virus behaves.
>
> Hugh Senior
> FLCo
>
>
>
>
> Richard Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:
>
> I have a Mac-only LC program that runs invisibly in the background. This is
> used in a corporate environment, so the actual user of the Mac computer will
> not likely even know it is running. It is designed to collect certain data
> and send it to management.
>
> I have not yet found a reliable way for the program to send an email to
> admin. This has to be done invisibly, so revmail is not an option.
>
> I tried both Shao Shen's libSMTP and Sarah's SMTPlibrary, but haven't had
> much success configuring the SMTP server information so that it will
> reliably send an email. I can get these to work with some SMTP server data
> (like GoDaddy), but often times, with a given clients mail server, neither
> of these programs will send an email. They just generate errors (like
> badconnect) as soon as SEND is pressed... even though I know the SMTP server
> data is correct.
>
> I thought about using the built-in OSX "sendemail" command from a Shell
> script, but I have read that that command will often not work on a given Mac
> unless the Mac has been set up to allow it to work. Not sure what is
> involved to make this command work.
>
> There must be some reliable way to (invisibly) send an email from a LC
> program running under OS X. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard Miller
>
>
>
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