Programmer's Page - idsMail

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Programming Guide

Our idsMail programming guide is a comprehensive help file which enables you to write your first E-mail program within 10 minutes of installing idsMail.

• Download Programming Guide (174k).

All sample code projects require idsMail Professional Edition to actually run.

• Universal E-mail Client - This sample is available for a variety of development environments (16-bit and 32-bit). It implements a full-featured E-mail client that can send, receive, reply, manage folders, etc. It works for any supported mail system and demonstrates just how easy it is to build professional E-mail features into your custom program.
  • Download VB3 Edition (24k)
  • Download VB4 Edition (37k)
  • Download VB5 Edition (33k)
  • Download Visual C++ Edition (100k) See also this tutorial on using OLE Servers from Visual C++.
  • Download Delphi 2.0 (32-bit only) Edition (10k)
    
    
• Active Messaging E-mail Client - This VB5 project implements an Active Messaging client with very little code. It illustrates the new folder management capabilities in idsMail v5.0.
  • Download VB5 Edition (40k)
    
    
• Remote Database Report Server - This MS Access sample program demonstrates an unattended database report server. Clients can request specific reports via E-mail, and can specify the report format (Excel, Rich-Text, or ASCII Text). The reports are then immediately generated and mailed back to the requestor. Great for the mobile user and so simple to write!
  • Download MS Access v2.0 Edition (32k)
  • Download MS Access97 Edition (80k)
    
    
• Universal List Server - List servers are used on the Internet to allow users to Subscribe or Unsubscribe from mailing lists. This sample allows you to run a list server on any supported mail system.
  • Download VB3 Edition (9k)
  • Download VB4 Edition (8k)
  • Download VB5 Edition (9k)
  • Download Microsoft Access v2.0 Edition (26k)
  • Download Microsoft Access97 Edition (71k)
    
    
• Remote File Retriever - Have you ever headed out on the road only to realize that a critical part of your presentation is still back on your office computer? This isn't a problem if you have IDS's Remote File Retriever. Just send your computer an E-mail and the file is automatically zipped up and sent back to you as an E-mail file attachment.
  • Download VB3 Edition (12k)
  • Download VB4 Edition (10k)
  • Download VB5 Edition (11k)
    
    
• Web E-mail (send/receive) - This sample uses idsMail with WindowsCGI to lets users access their LAN E-mail accounts via their web browser for complete send/receive support. The example is written for O'Reilly Associates WebSite product and requires their CGI.BAS module to compile and run.
  • Download VB3 Edition (9k)
    
    
• Remote PC Rebooter - This sample shows how you can reboot your PC remotely by sending it an E-mail message.
  • Download VB3 Edition (9k)
  • Download VB4 Edition (8k)
  • Download VB5 Edition (8k)
  • Download Microsoft Access v2.0 Edition (27k)
    
    
• Visual FoxPro 5.0 VCX Application - One of our customers ( Dick Hackett of Dr Dick's Software Inc.) donated this masterpiece that demonstrates MAPI mail operations, asynchronous Internet mail operations, and control of the Win95/WinNT dialer. Thanks, Dick!
  • Download Microsoft Word v6.0 Documentation (27k)
  • Download Visual FoxPro v5.0 Edition (55k)
  • Download PowerPoint Presentation (20k)

• Here are some fully-functional examples showing how to send E-mail with file attachments through any mail system using less than 10 lines of code:
  • Visual Basic v3.0 Example
  • Visual Basic v4.0 Example
  • Visual Basic v5.0 Example
  • MS Access Example
  • Visual FoxPro Example
  • Delphi 2.0 Example

    NOTE: Delphi 1.0 requires some special considerations.

  • SQLServer Stored Procedure Example
  • Visual dBase Example
  • JScript (ASP) Example
  • PerlScript (ASP) Example

All sample code projects require idsMail Standard Edition to actually run.

• Web Server Tech Support Form - This sample uses idsMail with WindowsCGI to implement a tech support form that runs on a web server. The form data is sent via E-mail to the tech support team. The example is written for O'Reilly Associates WebSite product and requires their CGI.BAS module to compile and run.
  
  
  • Download VB3 Edition (9k)

• Using X-Headers to your Advantage in Internet Mail - See how X-Headers can be used to tag messages, automatically identify and remove bad addresses in a mailing list, provide password-protected messages, etc.
  • Download Microsoft Word v6.0 Document (34k)
    
    
• Mail System Diagnostics - Here are the latest versions of the IDS Mail System Diagnostics software. This software helps to debug mail client and workstation configuration problems. It works with all versions of idsMail.
  • Download 32-bit Diagnostics (84k)
  • Download 16-bit Diagnostics (55k)
    
    
• Build Reports - This report generated by InstallShield shows all of the files in the latest 32-bit idsMail build along with their version numbers.
  • Download 32-bit Build Report (8k)
    
    
• Dependency Files - These dependency files were provided by a customer for use with the VB Setup Wizard.
  • Download 16-bit Dependency File (2k)
  • Download 32-bit Dependency File (2k)