[AccessD] Ten most common tasks/problems in Access

Jim Dettman jimdettman at verizon.net
Sun Oct 19 12:52:02 CDT 2014


CDO and outlook are a little higher level; Blat, vbSendmail, etc can only
send e-mails and talk directly to a SMTP server.

CDO and Outlook besides sending e-mails, can deal with objects like
appointments, tasks, etc.

Jim. 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of David Emerson
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 01:06 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ten most common tasks/problems in Access

Hi Stuart,

How does it differ from using cdosys.dll?

Regards

David Emerson
Dalyn Software Ltd
Wellington, New Zealand



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Monday, 20 October 2014 12:48 a.m.
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ten most common tasks/problems in Access

Yep with PB  you can build "industry standard" DLLs  exactly the same as
those created with 
C, C++, C#, MASM etc.   No need to "register" them or to have any fancy
installation 
procedure - just copy to a suitable location and use them.

Blat does not depend on a specific (or any) email client and does not rely
on the identity of the logged in user - so you can use it to automate emails
from any address you want running scheduled tasks on a server for example,
even if there is no email client installed on the 
machine.    I've used it in some organisations that don't use
Outlook/Exchange at all.      


--
Stuart


On 19 Oct 2014 at 7:29, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> Thanks, Stuart. I'll add these to my list. I haven't ever written a
> DLL, and until now was under the obviously mistaken impression that
> you had to write them in C++ or C#. I didn't know you could do it in
> Power Basic.
> 
> I have heard of blat but know nothing about it. What does it give you
> that other emailers don't? (I.e. why did you choose it against, say,
> integration with Outlook?)
> 
> Arthur
> 

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