Re: Sending email with TLS (via Outlook) from LC 6.7 based app...

2021-07-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Hi Bob, This is very interesting, thank you. Thanks all - I now have four routes to investigate! Ben On 16/07/2021 16:55, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So, yes you can set any windows device to operate as an SMTP relay. Server versions have this capability built in. You enable it in th

Re: Sending email with TLS (via Outlook) from LC 6.7 based app...

2021-07-16 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
So, yes you can set any windows device to operate as an SMTP relay. Server versions have this capability built in. You enable it in the features section of Server manager. You can then configure the local side to be an open relay not requiring auth or encryption, and configure the public side to

Re: Sending email with TLS (via Outlook) from LC 6.7 based app...

2021-07-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Aha! I didn't know that curl did SMTP. Thanks Matthias (and thanks Douglas, SwithMail looks like a good alternative). Ben On 16/07/2021 15:32, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: You could send out the emails with the command line tool curl using LC's shell function. https://everything.cu

RE: Sending email with TLS (via Outlook) from LC 6.7 based app...

2021-07-16 Thread Douglas A. Ruisaard via use-livecode
I had a very similar problem recently (although I was *not* using LC for the email processing). I found a small but great *free* shareware app called "SwithMail" by "tbare" which solved the same issue of needing TLS support. It's reasonably small (550 Kb) yet has a rich feature set. I'd suggest y

Re: Sending email with TLS (via Outlook) from LC 6.7 based app...

2021-07-16 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
You could send out the emails with the command line tool curl using LC's shell function. https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/smtp So instead of calling the libSMTP library you create the email according to RFC to have correct smtp headers and sent it using curl through the shell() function.