Hello,

I remember Armeen saying about email.dll that could be introduced in PB, in some other thread sometime back.   Not sure whether Appeon still have that in their plan.   This feature, if added will be a nice one, IMHO.

We use the Chilkat DLL which has a huge set of tools in it for all sorts of things including SMTP. Quite reasonable cost, with no deployment charges, for a vast toolset.

We're using SocketTools Active-X Edition.

For a reasonable price, and unlimited deployment, you get a wide variety of controls (ftp, ping, dns, http, mail, mail attachments, etc.) as client component, and in some cases, there is a server component.

We've been using SocketTools for 20 years and have only had issues a couple of times, and they were addressed pretty quick. It's a very solid product.

We use LIBCURL library that is integrated with PB via PBNI. It works very well.

We use two ways, one is Office Interop with Outlook, the other is SMTP. To do both of these we wrote a small Active\X control in .NET 4 that we connect to from PowerBuilder with ConnectToNewObject. It works very well, and .NET is very easy to use as there are so many examples out there, can't recommend enough having at least one .NET dll for things like this.

If anyone knows a place where I can post PowerBuilder sample code and builds. I'll happily post a working dll and source with instructions on how to use it. GiHub? Anything better?

I'm not really clear on what your issues are. Please give some detail.

Sorry Roland.  I downloaded your version and had the same issues.

Dennis

Dennis,

That example is a really old version of one from my website from 2009. It doesn't support any secure connection methods.

You should really try the PBNISMTP control from my website. You have asked basically the same question several times over the past month or so and you said you would try it but now you come back asking again but didn't give any feedback on PBNISMTP.

Please give PBNISMTP a try and let us know how it goes. Remember that if you deploy your app to 64bit, you will need to use the 64bit pbnismtp.pbx. Running within the IDE is 32bit as in prior versions.

Roland

http://www.topwizprogramming.com/pbnismtp.html

Thanks Govinda, I'll give that a try.

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

Here's the link from our knowledge base regarding Sending SMTP emails from PowerBuilder applications. It also includes a library with the example.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Govinda Lopez