Have found that emails do not go through our company server but will go
through other provider servers, e.g. rogers.com in Canada.

How do I adapt the following script components that form part of the BP
kit to overcome this and in general the world at large. Is there a
general enough type instruction that will fit servers globally?

Here is BP kit portion of Send Mail script:

Go to layout["Form view campaigns"(campaigns)
Set Variable [$$ desktop;Value:let([
MAC="filemac" & Get(DesktopPath);
PC="filewin" & Get(Desktop Path)];
Case(Abs(Get(SystemPlatform))=1; Mac;Abs(Get(SystemPlatform))=2:
PC & GetAsText(Campaigns::Attachment))]
If [notisEmpty(Campaigns::Attachment)]
Export Field Contents [campaigns::Attachment; "$$desktop"]

etc

Help and thanks,

Jim,

The Send Mail step that is built into FileMaker (not sure what the "BP
kit" is) uses the default email application on the machine running it.
This means it will go through whatever mail server has been set up in
your email application.

As for merging multiple field names for the body of the email, I'm
guessing that you are on an older version of FileMaker (prior to FM7),
as FM7 and later allow you to define any calculation you want for the
To, CC, Bcc, Subject and message.

If your version only allows a single field to be selected, then use the
Set Field step to set a global field to whatever concatenated text you'd
like and then point from the Send Mail step to that global field.



TIGER wrote:
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Howard Schlossberg (818) 883-2846
FM Professional Solutions, Inc. Los Angeles

FileMaker 8 Certified Developer
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance

Thanks Howard,

I am using latest Entourage and will call them if problem continues.

As it relates to inputing fields in the send mail routine, I missed the
option of creating a calculation and now have overcome the problem.

I am on a MAC os x 10.4.8 and use Filemaker 8.5.1 for future help from
you.

Thanks again,

Jim Koziak


Howard Schlossberg wrote: