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 a lot of work! A standard mail file includes header, body and attachments in just one single text file... I do not believe you can do it in WebCat alone, 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 him about 1000 hours (for a really good program). WebCat is faster to develop than 4D, but the most time he spent with learning SMTP and thinking...Peter++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Ostry - Vienna/Austria - www.ostry.com Fon ++43-1-877 74 54 Fax ++43-1-877 74 54-21 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Interfacing WC with mail server (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  2. Re: Interfacing WC with mail server (Kenneth Grome 1998)
  3. Re: Interfacing WC with mail server (John W 1998)
  4. Re: Interfacing WC with mail server (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  5. Re: Interfacing WC with mail server (Peter Ostry 1998)
  6. Interfacing WC with mail server (John W 1998)
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 a lot of work! A standard mail file includes header, body and attachments in just one single text file... I do not believe you can do it in WebCat alone, 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 him about 1000 hours (for a really good program). WebCat is faster to develop than 4D, but the most time he spent with learning SMTP and thinking...Peter++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Ostry - Vienna/Austria - www.ostry.com Fon ++43-1-877 74 54 Fax ++43-1-877 74 54-21 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Ostry

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