eMail attachment: best practice?

[Paul Dupuis]

So this tsNet example for sending an email look great IF you are using 
it in an corporate or institutional setting. One where you have a known 
SMTP server and you know whether or not that SMTP server requires 
authentication.

However, in the "wild" of a distributed application that could be on any 
customer's computer in any setting, how do you know what the customer's 
SMTP server is or whether it requires authentication. If it does require 
authentication, most people set this up in their email client ONCE (or 
rarely) and may not know or remember what the credentials are.

So I considered using our company SMTP server, but increasingly, SMTP 
servers will reject messages if they are from a client computer that is 
not in the same domain, as is the case with ours (for 
anti-spamming/spoofing), so that it out as an option.

I kinda need a solution that uses the clients own email client (and 
server). Maybe I should look at how to encode the array in a pure text 
form that can be part of the email body and send it that way. The 
problem there is that some email clients (like gMail) limit the size of 
the message body that can be generated from their APIs. If you use 
revMail with someone with gMail as their default mail, the message body 
can only be about 2500 characters (or maybe 5000, I forget the exact limit).

I suppose I could output the array as an encoded file to the customer's 
desktop and ASK them to manually attach it to the generated email? I 
wish there was a better option.


On 6/25/2024 6:15 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
> Instead of using revMail which opens the default mail client app you could use tsNET external, which is availlable  for Win/Mac/Linux/iOS and Android.
>
> The only thing you have to keep in mind is that tsNet directly sends the email instead of opening the default email client.
>
> Here you can find an sample stack
> https://downloads.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet/smtpexample.livecode
>
> And here is a link to a Livecode Lesson
> https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/685661-how-to-send-e-mail-using-the-tsnet-external
>
>
>
>> Am 25.06.2024 um 22:35 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>
>> Under a specific condition, my app creates an email with some pre-populated information using revMail:
>>
>> revMail address, [ccAddress, [mailSubject, [messageBody]]]
>>
>> So, my call is: revMail tSupportEmail, , "Diagnostic Report Information", tEmailBody
>> Where tSupportEmail contains a valid email address and tEmailBody contain the information I want to send.
>>
>> I realize the user still has to click their send button in their email client, but I have 2 questions:
>>
>> 1) I see the Dictionary still lists "revMailUnicode" with the same parameters. If tEmailBody contains Unicode characters do I need to textEncode(tEmailBody, "UTF-16") and use revMailUnicode OR is plain old revMail now Unicode aware
>>
>> 2) My more important question is how does one create an email with an attached file? I see no feature of revMail to include an attachment. Is there some other way? If there is no way to add an attachment, what might the best practice for sending the contents and structure of a Livecode array be?
>>
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