mail client

[jipper030]

Hi guys,

Can you help me in developing a mail client just like what MS outlook do. Cause my boss wants me to develop one having a centrtalized reference number to be inceremented each time a user compose a mail. This will be for our monitoring use. Or, can i just do this in MS outlook?

 

[Mike Lewis]

jipper030,

With all due respect to your boss, I would question the need to develop an entirely new email client. Just think of the work that would be involved in writing a program like Outlook. (You can show your boss this message if you like.)

If all your users are happily using Outlook, there is a much simpler solution. Write a small VFP program that uses COM Automation to control Outlook. The program could have a menu command or a button which initiates the composing of a new message. When the message has been successfully sent, the program could update a Foxpro table with the required message number.

For all other email functions, just continue using Outlook in the normal way.

It would take too long for me to write the entire program here (and, besides, that's your job), but I would guess that it would need maybe two forms and around 30 to 50 lines of code.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk