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Re: sending email via idl? [message #60739]

Fri, 06 June 2008 08:07

jeffnettles4870
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On Jun 5, 4:57 pm, jeffnettles4...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jun 5, 1:13 pm, "Haje Korth" <haje.ko...@nospam.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>> orhttp://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinema il.htm
>
>> (Google has tons of hits ffor this.)
>
>> H.
>
>> "Andy Heaps" <a.j.he...@reading.ac.uk> wrote in message
>
>> news:g289p9$4du$1@south.jnrs.ja.net...
>
>>> Hi Sudha,
>>> try using the SPAWN command and you should be able to do this.
>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andy
>
>>> sudha wrote:
>>>> Has anyone had any experience in writing an idl program to send email?
>>>> My software needs to have the ability to email an image attachment,
>>>> either when the user clicks a button, or as a notification at the end
>>>> of some computation.
>
>>>> Thanks!
>
>>>> Sudha
>
> You could also install cygwin. That's free and i think it includes
> sendmail. You might also think about spawning a perl or python script
> from IDL, something along those lines.
>
> As far as ActiveX/COM goes, I haven't heard of there being a control
> for a "default mail program." There might be such a program but it
> might still not have any COM functionality exposed. Outlook, of
> course, does expose COM functions, so if you have Outlook you can use
> that.
>
> Another free SMTP mailer is Blat.http://www.blat.net/194/. I just
> did some searching on the web, I do not use this myself.
>
> Jeff

I forgot to point out that I don't think you would need the IDL-COM
bridge for this. If you have IDL 6.3+ it has IDL objects that allow
you to work with ActiveX/COM controls (they existed pre-IDL6.3 but
were improved in that version). I've read/written data directly to/
from Excel files using those controls and I don't have the IDL-COM
Bridge.

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		Re: sending email via idl? By: jeffnettles4870 on Fri, 06 June 2008 08:07
		Re: sending email via idl? By: jeffnettles4870 on Thu, 05 June 2008 13:57
		Re: sending email via idl? By: Jean H. on Thu, 05 June 2008 10:40
		Re: sending email via idl? By: skapali on Thu, 05 June 2008 10:30
		Re: sending email via idl? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 05 June 2008 10:13
		Re: sending email via idl? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 05 June 2008 10:11
		Re: sending email via idl? By: Jean H. on Thu, 05 June 2008 09:48
		Re: sending email via idl? By: Andy Heaps on Thu, 05 June 2008 01:57
		Re: sending email via idl? By: Helder Marchetto on Fri, 11 January 2013 03:46

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