[AccessD] Email problem. Again

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Mon Mar 1 10:31:42 CST 2010


Dear List:

Couple years ago I got a lead here on how to automatically send emails with
reports attached from an app for one of my clients client - a patent
attorney who needs to send regular reports to all his clients.  I ended up
with a routine I got from a link called SendSMTPMail which requires a
reference to Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 library.  

It requires that you pass to the routine the mail server name, user name,
password, and port.  

And it worked for many months.  Then it stopped.  It works on my machine
with my personal but at their site, where they're using Exchange server,
something may have changed.  Who knows?  We had a session with their network
guy but couldn't get it to work.  

OTOH, I had the client try the routine at home on his laptop using his
personal account and he reported that it failed.  Now I don't know for sure
what parameters he passed to the SendSMTPMail routine so I don't know if
they were the right ones.  But if he has the right ones, and it failed on
his personal account, then that might point to the CDO? But that's been the
same (AFAIK) since day 1.

In any event, 2 questions:

1) any ideas why this would stop working?

2) is there a more "moderne" approach to this sending of emails?  He and I
discussed using the Outlook object - I've got that code in other apps, but
since he has ambitions to resell this system to other law firms, it should
be independent of Outlook.

MTIA

Rocky Smolin

Beach Access Software

858-259-4334

www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> 

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