twistedvoid wrote:
> Cars used to use carburetors. Now they use fuel injection.
...
> I graduated to Turbo Pascal from GWBasic.
You have learned more in the intervening period, and are tackling more
ambitious problems. Adding SSL SMTP functionality to your application
is like adding a turbo and cooling the inlet manifold without learning
about them: you will be lucky if it even starts.
Sooner or later, you will end up dealing with threading, exceptions and
streams. Indy has had similar problems: relevant to you, emails were
just single-part plain-text, then attachments were embedded as UUE or
XXE encodings, then MIME parts were added, and multipart's, QP, base64,
BinHex, TNEF, etc. Indy 9's email structure could not cope, the
structure had to be changed in Indy 10. It will have to be changed
again when my granny wants to send me 3D interactive emails, and
undoubtedly you will want to use this feature in the next version of
your program.
You have an option to read and implement all the current and future
RFCs on emails (and there are lots) which the Indy developers had to
do, a bit like making a turbo from a block of steel, or learn
Indy/ICS/etc, as in how to fit a turbo. For your specific problem, you
also need to read http://www.flogas.ie/indy/indymsg.html or Gambit's
blog (he posted the link elsewhere in this group).
> I like beer and carburetors.
I like the feeling of a turbo kicking in (and beer).
Ciaran
