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SMTPit - 3.1.1

Plugin sends email directly from FileMaker

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All Time:	(3.5)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	3.1.1
Release Date:	2004-01-29
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	1,612
Downloads (all versions):	6,363
Price:	$55.00

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Product Description:

Send email directly from FileMaker Pro to your mail server. SMTPit does not require a separate email sending application.
Set all the major email headers like To, From, Subject, CC, BCC, or add your own custom email headers.
Send any number of attachments specifying their filenames from fields in your database.
Break your email content into Header, Body, and Footer sections to make it easier to compose messages.
SMTPit supports Japanese and Central and Eastern European characters. You no longer have to fool around with AppleScripts to convert between SJIS and JIS. SMTPit does it all automatically for you. All you have to do is type your Japanese or Central and Eastern European characters into your localized version of FileMaker Pro, and send the email!
Advanced Connect and Disconnect functions for use with Mass Email Solutions. The Send function works as it always did, connect, send email, disconnect, if you use it by itself. However, if you use the Connect and Disconnect functions, the Send function will detect that you are already connected and will simply send the email. This makes it much more efficient for Mass Email Solutions.
Integrated Status Window. SMTPit has the ability to show you what it's doing as it's doing it. You no longer have to wonder if it's frozen, or if it's just sending that large attachment.
Full support for the OS X, with improved support for 10.3.
Authentication support. SMTPit allows you to log in to mail servers that require authentication before allowing you to send emails. SMTPit supports the Plain, Login, and CRAM-MD5 Authentication types.
Multi-tasking support for Mac OS 9. You can run FMP/SMTPit on the same machine as your mail server and be able to send email to it. (We do, however, highly recommend that you do not do this. You will get much better performance by running FMP and your mail server on two separate machines.)
Email Address Validation. SMTPit checks the email addresses you give it to see if they "look" like valid email addresses. If SMTPit cannot find anything that looks like a valid email address, it will return an error. This helps manage databases where users may not give a valid email address, like on a web form.
Support for Multipart/Alternative Text and HTML emails. You can send emails that have a Text part, an HTML part, Inline HTML Images, *and* Attachments.
Send and Connect functions can now take optional parameters, like bringing up a dialog if the email was sent successfully, or to return a transcript of the interaction between SMTPit and your mail server to help track down sending problems.

What's new in this version:

Fixed a bug with the Password field in the Configuration Dialog on Windows. Added a check in the Send function that made sure it could open the attachments before trying to send the email. (It used to only check when it was actually sending the email, meaning that if the attachment couldn't be read, it would send the email without the attachment. The check is now just earlier in the process.) Fixed a problem on Windows where certain ISPs would include an @ symbol when setting the Host Name of the computer, causing mail servers to give an error when SMTPit was trying to identify itself. Fixed a problem on OS X where the status dialog wasn't updating properly.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

FileMaker Pro 4 or higher
SMTP compliant email server

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Crashing under OS 10.3.x - Version: 3.1.1, 6/1/2005 04:17PM PST

BLance

Plug-in is crashing FileMaker under 10.3.x when sending multiple emails (after 4 to 5 emails). Product needs work regarding user interface and stability.

Best Filemaker plugin ever made - Version: 3.1.1, 5/18/2005 12:11PM PST

Laure2

I've used SMTPit for about 4 years, this is the greatest Filemaker enhancement function ever built. Great.

It was good until... - Version: 3.1.0, 4/23/2004 03:09PM PST

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Chr. Roth

...I started running Panther on my dual processor Mac. Then, it started crashing FileMaker every other time when sending email or showing messages like "The number of computers using SMTPit on your network exceeds the number of licenses you own. This plug-in will no longer function." even though my machine is the only one on our LAN running (and the only one where the plug-in is installed). It still works without crashing when using CHUD to turn off one processor before launching FileMaker + my database, so it's most probably a synchronization/threading bug.

I reported this and more details to CNS three weeks ago, but haven't heard back from them, yet.

Summary: Don't use on dual-processor macs until fixed, otherwise a mature tool for sending email in FM solutions, with decent attachment support (incl. setting MIME types) and a rather clear API.