Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/18/08 18:46

Gilles Ganault wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:55:11 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex@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 support@acme.com . Nothing fancy, and
> it's all we need.
>

So you're going to force all of your users to install PHP on their
machines? Good luck - PHP is running on the server, not the client.
And a correctly configured MTA won't allow you to connect to it from
your server.

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