[AccessD] redemption

I don't recall you asking how to do this.

It would be about an hour to develop a system to do it using a combination of Pegasus Mail, 
PowerBasic and SQLTools, and Blat.   

A few hours  to do the whole thing as a single standalone application with PB/SQL Tools 
coding  simple POP3 and SMTP client modules in the application.  Most of the code required 
is already available either in the samples that come with the compiler on the forums at 
wwww.powerbasic.com   :-)


-- 
Stuart 

On 31 May 2011 at 12:36, jwcolby wrote:

> Arthur,
> 
> I am setting up an automated system for:
> 
> 1) Receive an email with an Excel attachment
> 2) Strip the attachment, create a directory and place the attachment
> into it. 3) Create a SQL Server database (temporary) 4) Import a list
> of zips in each page of the spreadsheet into a matching table in the
> database 5) Count the household / population in those zips 6) generate
> an email back out with the counts in the body of the email.
> 
> The objective is that the client sends an email that matches strict
> criteria (Count name in the subject, files have count name pattern in
> the file name etc) and have the system automatically pick up the email
> (pull it into the server), get the attachment and process it.
> 
> I went looking and all I could find for automating GMail was web
> crapola, IOW if you wanted to do stuff with it on your web site.  I
> need it on my server.
> 
> I am not using outlook per se, I am trying to get an object that is a
> POP or CDO or whatever. Something that will pull data into a email
> store local to my computer that I can manipulate.
> 
> No one spoke up when I asked how to do this.  Now everyone has an
> opinion.  OTOH I have actual running code that does this now, so
> opinions at this point do me no good.  I already paid to develop this.
> 
> I have a business to run, you know?  When I ask and get no response I
> go figure it out myself.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> On 5/31/2011 11:13 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> > OK, regard this as a stupid question, but Why is anyone using
> > Outlook? I just don't get it. There are so many superior
> > alternatives, my current preference being gmail, but there are many
> > others.
> >
> > Arthur
> >
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:07 AM,
> > jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:
> >
> >> We are using the free version of Redemption.
> >>
> >>
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