Product Overview (Dundas Mailer Control 1.0)

Product Overview (Dundas Mailer Control 1.0)

Overview | Properties | Methods

The Dundas Mailer Control 1.0 is a free commercial email control which utilizes the SMTP, MIME and NNTP protocols to send email messages and post news articles. It has been designed for use within Active Server Pages (ASP) and can be used by web developers or ASP developers to quickly and painlessly add web-based email capabilities to their ASP applications.

The Dundas Upload control, which also incorporates an Upload Progress component and a State Server executable, can be used in conjunction with the Mailer control when working with uploaded files in order to provide developers with web-based email solutions which fully support a web-farm environment.

Features List Installation/Redistribution
How to use the Documentation

Features List

The following is just some of the features of the Dundas Mailer control:

1. Choose between text and/or html-based email.

2. Fully supports embedded html objects within an html-based email (audio files, graphics files, etc.).

3. Ability to post news articles to news groups. You have the option of posting to the root directory or as a response to a particular article.

4. Specify multiple recipients by using the TOs, CCs, and BCCs collections.

5. Message headers and the message body can be set to non-ASCII values.

6. Validate your email addresses to save your bandwidth.

7. Specify multiple SMTP and DNS servers to make your email operations lightning quick.

8. Fully supports the use of custom headers.

9. Optionally prioritizes your messages. You can also request confirmation when the user retrieves and/or reads an email message.

10. Send multiple attachments with your messages.

11. MSDN integrated html help.

     

Installation/Redistribution

Controls and Samples Install

The name of the install file is: "AspMail.exe".

The windows account under which the install runs needs to have administrative priviledges for a successful installation. 

The following files will be copied to the selected installation directory:

1) ASP pages: AutoResponse.asp, PostArticle.asp, PostArticle_Process.asp, SendMail.asp, SendMail_Process.asp, SendHtmlEmail.asp, SendHtmlEmail_Process.asp and Error.asp.

2) Various graphics files required by the ASP pages (InstallDirectory/Images/).

3) ReadMe.htm.

 
Start menu entries are as follows:

Dundas Software | Free Products | Mailer and Upload Controls | ReadMe

 
Documentation Install

To uninstall the documentation run the install file again (FPDocInst.exe) and choose either "Remove From MSDN" if you integrated into the MSDN or "Remove All" if you did not integrate into the MSDN.

How to use the Documentation

Documentation for the Mailer control consists of the following:

1. Compiled html help (optionally integrated into the MSDN). The html help provides detailed explanations for all members of the control as well as a control overview. Other topics which should be especially useful are:

• How to Use the Dundas Mailer Control

• Overview (Dundas Mailer Control 1.0)

• QuickStart (Dundas Mailer Control 1.0)

• Tutorial 1: Sending an Email with an Attachment

• Tutorial 2: Sending an Html Email with an Embedded Image

• Tutorial 3: Posting to a Newsgroup

2. ReadMe.htm. This file is distributed with the Mailer control, and consists of installation information, release notes and a troubleshooting section.