Options for sending email
- Posted by Spock Jun 18, 2014
- 2031 views
Hi,
My company wants to send out automated emails (mainly remittance advices) from a small accounting utility that they want me to write. ATM they scan the hardcopy and manually email it to the supplier. Their current accounting software (for supplier payments) is so lame it cannot automate such a basic business task. In a few years they'll upgrade but right now my job is to tidy up this process.
Another utility that I wrote for the company creates, prints, and uploads invoice data into our main accounting system. Out of that system we email _most_ of the invoices to customers.
If I knew how to send emails from my programs I could unify & streamline that entire area of our company process. So what are my options for intelligently sending automated emails?
From email.exw et al I have added Simple MAPI routines to my program but this relies on there being support for this in the default email client to work. In MS Outlook a security feature keeps prompting the user to verify each email being sent. When sending eg, 100, emails at a time, it would be quite tedious to keep clicking some button those 100 times. Is there a way to avoid this? I haven't figured out how to send (correct) credentials to the MAPI routines. What if I sent the email data directly to the SMTP server instead?
Maybe someone with direct experience on this would like to comment/advise..
TIA
Spock
