I am looking for something to send (internal) email to another user on
a lan where maybe 20 users are on a server without leaving the
filemaker climate

Thanks
JC

The plugins "SMTPit" and "POPit" can be used to send and receive e-mail
directly from within FileMaker but as far as I recall they're not
cheap.
What about a "Message Centre" module where you can create messages /
todos for other users. If your solution is setup with a main menu then
every time you goto or leave the main menu you could check to see if
there are new messages for you in "Message Centre" module.

Thanks for your reply. Smpt it etc. as I recall only send and receive
email from outside the lan. I'm looking for something that the users
inside a building can send email to.

Thanks
JC

The message Centre module sounds like a good idea, I just have never
seen it or don't know where to start to implement it.

My assumption is that you already have a FileMaker solution of some
sort running.
Assuming you have access, you could add to this solution a new file
called "Emails" with the fields;
ID User From
ID User To
Subject
Body
Flag Read
Creation TimeStamp

You'll have to create a list and a main screen to display the e-mails.
Some coding will be required so that the user only sees their e-mails.
The problem is a real e-mail package will check for mail every eg. 5
minutes and get your attention if there is new mail.
By default FileMaker doesn't check for new records in the Email table
that have your user id so you have to script it.
If your current solution uses a Main Menu file and is setup so that a
user will navigate from eg. the company screen back to the Main Menu
and then to the vendor screen then you could add an ustored calculation
to the Main Menu file which displays a "You have mail" message if there
are records for that user that haven't been marked as read.

Depending on how complex you want to get; you could allow add ToDo's
and a calendar so that a user can create ToDo's for themselves or for
another user which will display on a calendar. This may be better than
e-mail since it can be used to track when things are completed.

I can't help you if you don't want to leave the Filemaker climate.
I do, however send internal emails from Filemaker through MS Outlook
and then it goes back to Filemaker when done.
I do this on my company internal LAN.
In Scriptmaker there's a "SendMail" step. I run a Find first and then
Sendmail.
It works really good with Outlook.

Ihor

that sounds like a great and do able idea.

thanks so much
jc