Email data from form

General
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Hi. I would like some direction on how to send an email to myself from fields in a desktop app without having the user open their email client to send the email. I tried working through the email example in Xojo but am not getting it to work. I made up a dummy gmail account for all the data to be sent from, instead of having the user enter their email client, server, username and password. On the form, I added a TCP Socket and changed the Super to SMTPSocket. Also, I have a textbox to enter the To address and a textarea for the email body. The pushbutton code is below. Is this possible to accomplish? Can you see where I might be going wrong? Are there any settings in gmail I need to change? I already updated the setting in gmail to allow SMTP and disallow POP

[code] dim mail as EmailMessage
MailSocket.Address = “smtp.gmail.com”
MailSocket.Port = 25

MailSocket.Username = “xxxx@gmail.com”
MailSocket.Password = “password”

mail = new EmailMessage
mail.fromAddress = “xxxx@gmail.com”
mail.subject = “testing email”
mail.bodyPlainText = TextArea1.Text
mail.headers.appendHeader “X-Mailer”,“Example SMTP Demo”

mail.AddRecipient trim(TextField1.Text)

MailSocket.Messages.Append mail
MailSocket.SendMail[/code]

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Gmail requires a TLS connection, so you’re going to have to use smtpsecuresocket. Also make sure your from & to addresses are different otherwise gmail will consider the message spam.

3

Thank you Wayne! That was the trick!!

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thanks Wayne … i did not know that but i did have problem many months ago when i do that…

5

You are both welcome.

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wayne… how did u find out that if u used the same email address for both from and to, gmail will think it is spam?? i didn’t notice it is consider as spam but the problem i got is i can’t send email from gmail if it is the same but ok if i change the email address to send from.

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It was actually from the NUG. I’d send email but never see it in the inbox, I would get replies so obviously other people were seeing the messages.

8

Will this work for just sending an email to a group of people letting them know a task has been completed? I am really new to this and trying to figure this out.

9

Yes. You can add multiple recipients to the email before sending.

10

This even might be useful for me. Is it just a button to send the email within a App?