Re: Interfacing WC with mail server

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 21036
interpreted = N
texte = At 16:11 Uhr -0600 14.11.1998, John W wrote:>I wanted to ask if anyone has any experience interfacing WC with a mail>server so that you can use a web browser to read your e-mail. Is this>even possible?If you mean a web-based archive - PCS does it already.If you want to write a WebCat-based email client, this is possible - but alot of work! A standard mail file includes header, body and attachments injust one single text file... I do not believe you can do it in WebCatalone, because there are no functions to encode attachments, for example.A friend of mine has just completed a Web-Mailer in 4D and it took himabout 1000 hours (for a really good program). WebCat is faster to developthan 4D, but the most time he spent with learning SMTP and thinking...Peter++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Peter Ostry - Vienna/Austria - www.ostry.comFon ++43-1-877 74 54 Fax ++43-1-877 74 54-21++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

At 16:11 Uhr -0600 14.11.1998, John W wrote:>I wanted to ask if anyone has any experience interfacing WC with a mail>server so that you can use a web browser to read your e-mail. Is this>even possible?If you mean a web-based archive - PCS does it already.If you want to write a WebCat-based email client, this is possible - but alot of work! A standard mail file includes header, body and attachments injust one single text file... I do not believe you can do it in WebCatalone, because there are no functions to encode attachments, for example.A friend of mine has just completed a Web-Mailer in 4D and it took himabout 1000 hours (for a really good program). WebCat is faster to developthan 4D, but the most time he spent with learning SMTP and thinking...Peter++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Peter Ostry - Vienna/Austria - www.ostry.comFon ++43-1-877 74 54 Fax ++43-1-877 74 54-21++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Ostry

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