[DUG]Sending email software

[Paul Eggleton]

John Bird wrote on Tuesday, 23 May 2006 1:58 p.m.:
> I am favouring making a self installer using inno-setup (a nice
> Delphi based free installer).  This means sending a .exe file, which
> lots of email systems will block, so I was thinking of sending the
> .EXE inside a .zip file.

One other alternative would be simply to put the EXE file on a website
and just provide a URL to access it. If nothing else points to the URL
and you make it reasonably complicated you can be fairly sure nobody
else will find it.

The only downside with this approach is that if you later remove the
file they won't be able to just look back in their emails for the
installer anymore. Plus of course it assumes you have access to a
website to host the file in the first place.

Cheers,
Paul


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