E-Mail Object?

[LB]

I heard that this object existed and did a search both here and on all the extension pages, but got no results. Is there an E-Mail object? And if so, where can I download it? Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I tried to look...

[KetchupMaster]

Yes, there is an email object. It's in bonus pack 1, only in the developer version though. You can download bonus pack 1 over there ---->

[LB]

Only developer!? Bummer...

[Jeff]

You can use the vitalize plug in and open a link "mailto:whoever@there.com" and it will open an email form.

[LB]

But I want to do it in a way that the user never sees the address, so it's program sent, like web forms, and the support form on the CT site.

[Jeff]

Well then you could
- upgrade to developer
- Look up examples made with Moosock and try to do it
- use a socket type object to communicate with a server running a script that does the email for you

[dingdong]

Or you could look for an ActiveX to do the same thing

[Flava]

Or if you have some web space that supports PHP - upload a page called email.php with something like the following:

<?php
$message = $_GET["message"];
$from = $_GET["name"]; //email address of sender

$email = "your@email.com"; //email address to send to
$subject = "Message subject";

mail($email,$subject,"$message","From: $from");

?>

Then use MooSock to connect to it:

Connect to www.yoursite.com on port 80
Send text line "GET /email.php?message=blahblah&from=email@addy.com HTTP/1.1"
Send text line "Host: www.yoursite.com"
Send text line ""

Or something similar. That's the way I'd do it - there's no point upgrading to developer just for the email object, when it's possible to use alternatives. Unless there are other developer features you're interested in, and you have the money of course.

[DavidN]

Is it really that simple to send emails from PHP? I'm almost accustomed to the way that it has a function to do absolutely everything in about one line now, but I remember reading about security issues with using the "mail" function (some servers refusing mail from it? I can't remember).

[James]

An open PHP script like that could be very abusable by spammers.