[AccessD] CDOSYS

I guess a little analogy is needed.

SMTP is equivalent to  a postal worker, carrying a letter from point to 
point,
making sure it gets put into the right mailbag, flown to the right city,
and so on -- everything from the first postbox to the time it reaches
your apartment mailbox in the foyer. POP3 is like sending your kid down
with the mailbox key to collect your mail from the foyer.

IMAP is an improvement on POP3. It means you can leave your messages
on their server OR download them to your computer. This is great if you 
are short
on disk space or need to check your mail from multiple locations. You 
can set up
any email client (i.e. Outlook Express, Pine, etc.) to check the account 
or you
can use the web-based version when you are away from home.  IMAP also
allows storage in heirchical folders.
see http://www.imap.org


By the way some POP3 servers enforce automatic deletion of messages once
downloaded, there is a command to stop this but it may not be activated.
eg. Google's POP3 service is not RFC compliant which means as soon as you
read a message from it, not matter what you do,
that message will disappear from the message queue.

I can't wait for the confusion to start on IMAP and MAPI ;


Max Home wrote:

>Marty, I am so sorry.  I meant to say SMTP not Pop3.  I hope this hasn't
>caused you (and others) any problems.
>It sends email via SMTP and I would like to send it via IMAP so that it
>appears to come as if from the webmailer without having to go through
>Outlook (I can do it via Outlook with no problem) but not from within your
>program.
>
>
>Regards
>Max
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
>Sent: 17 July 2006 21:25
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] CDOSYS
>
>I don't remember using any POP3 in code,
>it is a different protocol than SMTP.
>Perhaps you could repost the code.
>
>One big problem is recent ISP security restrictions.
> Some cable ISP's will not allow an IP from outside their
>domain to access a POP3 server,
>POP3 access wont work at all with DSL or dial-up connections.
>Some ISP's don't allow any connection at all.
>
>To check yours, you can try to access POP3 via Telnet
>Try it on rarely used Email account.
>
>You could try this to get into POP3 port 110
> but it may take 10 minutes to activate.
>
>telnet shawmail.vc.shawcable.net 110
>
>Then use valid commands eg.  'user',
>'pass', 'list', 'top', & 'quit and maybe "RETR"
>
>Here are some old samples of VB code
>to get at POP3. Pretty basic and they might not
>handle file attachments etc. They generally all
>use Win Sockets.
>
>Microsoft Access Email FAQ
>http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/email.htm
>
>Programmer's Toolkit (VB/Winsock) for Internet Mail  VB 5 code from book
>Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail by John Rhoton, Digital Press 1999. 
>ISBN: 1-55558-212-5
>
>http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000022279
>
>or Access email via winsock.dll in German
>This only sends email via SMTP or POP3 server
>http://www.freeaccess.de/downloaddetails.asp?id=19
>
>processing mail from a pop3 mailbox a semi freebie dll
> http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html
>
>
>Articles on using WinSockets in VB
>http://www.vbip.com/winsock-api/
>http://www.vbip.com/winsock-api/connect/connect-01.asp
>
>
>
>
>Max Home wrote:
>
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>
>>Hi Marty,
>>Don't know if this is possible, but within your program you have it set up
>>to use Pop3.  Can it also handle Imap?  Currently there is nowhere to enter
>>the question that is in the Outlook Advanced Tab = "This Server Requires an
>>Encrypted Connection (SSL)" that is present in Outlook from where it works
>>fine.
>>
>>It would be nice if I could use it to send emails via the domain as it were
>>webmail.  I can do it using Outlook, but would prefer to miss out Outlook
>>    
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>if
>  
>
>>possible.
>>
>>Can you advise please?
>>
>>Regards
>>Max
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Home
>>Sent: 13 July 2006 19:31
>>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>>Subject: Re: [AccessD] CDOSYS
>>
>>Great reply.  Thanks for all the pointers, Marty
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>Max
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
>>Sent: 13 July 2006 19:10
>>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>Subject: Re: [AccessD] CDOSYS
>>
>>CDOSYS does not allow to read e-mail, only to send them.
>>While CDOSYS doesn't allow you to pull mail via POP3 or
>>IMAP4, it can load a raw MIME message as stream
>>for example from an .EML file saved to your hard disc.
>>This can get complicated really quickly . So it is possible
>>but I can think of better ways of spending the summer.
>>
>>Or you could use a dotNet DLL to call POP3 via tcpconnection class
>>See 8.13
>>http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6436a.asp
>>
>>Pop3 controls callable from Access; a lot out there generally work 
>>through sockets
>>
>>Freebies
>>
>>ZaksPop3 Java based.
>>http://www.zaks.demon.co.uk/code/cpts/pop/index.html
>>
>>Commercial
>>http://www.quiksoft.com/newsletter/issue003/
>>
>>GETMAIL for Windows free for  personal use
>>
>>http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html
>>
>>Max Home wrote:
>>
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>>>Hi, Marty Connelly,
>>>
>>>You kindly posted some code for using CDOSYS to send Emails. On the
>>>      
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>example
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>>>form, you had some fields for receiving emails via Pop3.  I was wondering
>>>Marty if you (or anybody) had any code for these options and  also if it
>>>could handle IMapi accounts from a web mail account?
>>>
>>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Max
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-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada