Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

Rick Harrison harrison at all-auctions.com
Mon Mar 1 13:36:58 EST 2021


Hi Matthias,

Yes, I meant lcMailAndFtp.livecode.

I’m looking at https://www.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet-resources/ <https://www.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet-resources/> now.

I’ll get back to you later after absorbing what I can understand.

Thanks!

Rick



> On Mar 1, 2021, at 12:38 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Rick,
> 
> do you mean the stack lcMailAndFtp.livecode?
> 
> The original stack was created by Charles Warwick, the developer of the tsNet externals.
> If i remember correctly, i added the FTP part or so and put that modified stack as lcMailAndFtp.livecode online.
> 
> You could look here for a newer version (1.2) of Charles mail sample stack.
> https://www.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet-resources/
> 
> Although the version 1.2 of the mail stack is more current then the one from my site, it still is a little bit "outdated".
> There is a new command in LC available called mimeEncodeAsMIMEEmail which would make some of the code in the sample stack obsolete if it would be used. But the sample stack from Techstrategies should still work.
> 
> If you still have problems you can contact me also directly at   matthias (at) m-r-d.de
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 
>> Am 01.03.2021 um 17:49 schrieb Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> Hi Matthias,
>> 
>> I ran into your send email stack with TSNet
>> yesterday while looking for a solution to
>> some of my livecode email problems.  
>> After filling in the test fields to send a message
>> and hitting the send button, it told me the
>> message was sent, but upon checking my
>> email it was clear that it never got sent.
>> 
>> I know you put that stack together in 2017
>> so some things have changed since then
>> including macOS.  
>> 
>> Have you tested the stack recently at all 
>> and do you know if it still works?  
>> 
>> If so, the other possibility is that I have 
>> somehow not filled in one of the fields properly.  
>> Could you supply a better example using 
>> gmail smtp settings or something similar,
>> or update the documentation?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 26, 2021, at 10:26 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I tried here to find an "empty" .url file, but w/o success. My .url files i have collected over the years on my Windows VM are all textfiles. If you could provide a link to such an empty one, i would be really interested to see that.
>>> 
>>> Regarding the .lnk files, which seem to be in a binary form, did you already see this discussion here?
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/397125/reading-the-target-of-a-lnk-file-in-python
>>> 
>>> Someone posted a Python script there which is able to read the target of an .lnk file.
>>> May be that is an alternative.
>>> 
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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