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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think from memory that was to do with the SMTP component being already connected to another server. Must have been a good reason at the time...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 12 July 2011 8:26 p.m.<br><b>To:</b> delphi@delphi.org.nz<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Email/SMTP code<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Erm...<br>I understand your code works, but you probably want to remove this bit. <br>The RFC doesn't require a pause<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> t := now ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> while (SMTP.Connected) and</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> (now < t + 10 * (1/86400)) do // 10 Seconds</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> sleep(10) ;<br><br></span>Also, to get around the mailservers that block you ( e.g. when they don't know you, or think you're a spam bot)<br>just relay the message through your own ISP<br>e.g. if you're with orcon, use mail.orcon.net.nz, if you're with ihug, use their smtp server...<br>As long as you have the correct destination email addresses (and aren't in fact writing a spam bot), the big mail servers can do the work for you<br><br>David<br><br>On 12/07/2011 2:01 p.m., David O'Brien wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Wrote this a while ago, but still works...</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>procedure SendEmail(msgFrom, msgTo, msgSubject: String; msgBody: TStringList; Attachments: TStringList) ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>var</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> IdMessage: TIdMessage;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP: TIdSMTP;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> t: TDateTime ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> i: Integer ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>begin</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> try</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> if ASettings.SMTPServer <> '' then</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> begin</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP := TidSMTP.Create(nil) ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> IdMessage := TIdMessage.Create(SMTP);</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> try</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> idMessage.Clear ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> idMessage.From.Address := msgFrom ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> idMessage.Recipients.Add.Address := msgTo ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> idMessage.Subject := msgSubject ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> if pos('<html', lowercase(msgBody.Text)) <> 0 then</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> idMessage.ContentType := 'text/html' ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> if msgBody <> nil then</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> IdMessage.Body.Assign(msgBody) ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> t := now ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> while (SMTP.Connected) and</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> (now < t + 10 * (1/86400)) do // 10 Seconds</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> sleep(10) ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> if Assigned(Attachments) then</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> for i := 0 to pred(Attachments.Count) do</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> TIdAttachmentFile.Create(IdMessage.MessageParts, Attachments[i]) ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Host := ASettings.SMTPServer ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Port := ASettings.SMTPPort ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Username := ASettings.Username ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Password := ASettings.Password ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Connect ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> try</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Send(idMessage) ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> finally</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Disconnect ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> end ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> finally</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> SMTP.Free ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> IdMessage.Free ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> end;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> end;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> except</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> EmailFailed := True ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> end ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>end ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a> [<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Bird<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 12 July 2011 1:47 p.m.<br><b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br><b>Subject:</b> [DUG] Email/SMTP code</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anyone got a recommendation for the best (free) code/samples to drive Indy10 for sending an email with attachment</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-Indy10.2.3</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-Send attachment</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-SMTP server and email addresses will be known</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have tried a couple (eg AtoZed SendMail example) but it seems to time out connecting to the SMTP </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New 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