I ripped out Indy 10, downloaded and installed the latest Indy 9 and my program is back in operation including a TidAntifreeze that works.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions, I do appreciate them.
One final note: Many suggested I was using Indy wrong. That it
uses a 'blocking' model and I'm trying to use it in a
non-blocking manner.
My component pallet has hundreds of icons, components written by
dozens of commercial and freeware authors. My goal is to take
the ideas in my head and turn them into workable, sellable
programs using those components. I have enough problems
figuring out how to accomplish my own coding goals. I don't
have the time to sit down and learn the methodology behind every
single component or set of components on my pallete. Whether
Indy uses a blocking or non-blocking model is inconsequential to
me. Can I learn it quick and can I get it to send and recieve
e-mail? Those were my only questions.
Every Indy example I looked at took me about 15 minutes of
button pushing to create an app exception in one form or
another. I still get 'stack overflow' errors in the IDE when
working with Indy. Furthermore, I have this innate difficulty
with paying for documentation when example programs crash.
As a whole, I still think Indy sucks and ICS is a much better
component suite, if for no other reason, ICS includes examples
of how to use every single component. I think Francois has done
an excellent job over the years. If it had SSL for POP and
SMTP, I'd still be using... nay, paying for it.
