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Posted by C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) on 01/18/08 13:03
On Jan 18, 12:57 pm, Gilles Ganault <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:55:11 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
>
> <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >OK, but my firewall still stops it. And the server itself won't accept it.
>
> Our VB applications are already set up on users' PC, and those having
> a firewall that checks outgoing connections are already set up to
> allow outgoing connections. I'm just adding a new feature to this
> existing application so that they can send us a message right from our
> app instead of having to use an e-mail client (which most of them
> don't have any experience with anyway).
>
> So... the VB app uses the MSWinsock OCX to connect to our web server
> and call a PHP script that just reads in the $_POST parameters, and
> sends an e-mail with those to supp...@acme.com . Nothing fancy, and
> it's all we need.
FWIW I would say MAPI is a much more sensible solution than going
round the houses with Posting to webservers - it also avoids a lot of
potential security problems.
C.
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