PowerTCP Mail Tool

The SMTP Control sends mail, the POP Control downloads mail, the IMAP Control manages mail on the server, and the Message object encodes/decodes your mail on-the-fly. If you have experienced the pain of dealing with multi-part MIME messages, you'll appreciate our new Message object!

• SMTP Control
  Use this control to send messages to any SMTP server. Enhanced SMTP commands are automatically supported. A message can even be constructed and sent with one line of code.
• POP Control
  Use this control to download messages from any POP3 server. By default, all messages are downloaded into a single collection of message objects!
• IMAP Control
  Use this control to manage and download messages from any IMAP4 server. A local object model makes remote mail management easy, with no knowledge of IMAP4 commands required!
• Mail Object
  Takes any MIME message and decodes it into an object representation you can easily deal with. Every attachment, part, and label element is accurately represented as an object, giving you un-surpassed processing convenience. Performs encoding too, so you can pass messages between the POP, IMAP, and SMTP controls!

Benefits & Features

• Detailed knowledge of SMTP, POP3, IMAP4 and MIME is not required.
• Enhanced SMTP commands such as 8BITMIME, PIPELINING, SIZE and Delivery Status Notifications are automatically used if advertised by the server.
• The Message object provides an object representation of any e-mail message. This formatting object supports easy manipulation of simple and complex (even nested) MIME messages.
• Controls maintain small memory footprints, even while encoding/decoding large messages in memory.
• Encoded/decoded messages need not be spooled to disk, making this product a real performer for messages buffered in memory.
• One method call builds and sends a message.
• All the benefits listed in the PowerTCP Overview.

Sample Projects

• Bulk Mailer
  Uses the SMTP control to show how to send the same message to many recipients. Addresses are taken from a CRLF delimited text file. Uses the POP control to show how to maintain a list of people who have replied with REMOVE in the subject. Visual Basic 6.
• Mail Forwarder
  Uses the POP control to retrieve all messages for a given source address. Uses the SMTP control to forward those messages to a given destination. Visual Basic 6.
• Smtp Client
  Demonstrates how to build and send a message using the Message Object and SMTP Control. Visual Basic 6, Delphi 4, PowerBuilder 6.
• Pop Client
  Demonstrates many aspects needed to create a simple message client program using the Message Object and the POP Control. Visual Basic 6, Delphi 4, PowerBuilder 6.
• Quick Send
  A simple version of the SmtpClient application, uses the QuickSend method to show how to quickly send a message with very little coding. Visual Basic 6, VC++ 6, Delphi 4, PowerBuilder 6.
• Imap Client
  Demonstrates interactive operation with an IMAP4 server. Visual Basic 6, Delphi 4, PowerBuilder 6.
• Message Chunker
  Uses the SMTP Control and the Message Object to show how to break a large message into several smaller chunks that the receiver can later reassemble back into a single large message. Visual Basic 6.
• DB Pop
  Uses the Database capabilities of VB to create a database and populate it with all messages that currently residing in a designated POP3 Account. Visual Basic 6 and Access 97.
• Merge Mail
  From a database of members of a sales force, determine the monthly sales of each member and then E-mail each member a letter reflecting their performance. Access 97.

Potential Uses/Applications

• Custom Mail Client applications.
• Help Desk applications.
• ASP (web-based) Mail Applications.
• Custom e-mail notification applications.
• Custom Mail processing or routing applications.
• Bulk mailer applications.
• Automatically e-mail a compressed file from your application.
• Filter and forward mail received at specific e-mail addresses.
• Create a unified messaging application for your company.
• MIME message (attachment) manipulation, including decoding and encoding.

Compatibilities

• Development Environments: Visual Studio, Office 97 (VBA), C++Builder, Delphi, PowerBuilder and other environments that supports ActiveX (ATL) controls.
• Operating Systems: Windows 95/98, NT4, NT 2000.