SMTPit 3.0 for Windows and Macintosh
©1999-2002, Comm-Unity Networking Systems - All Rights Reserved.

Before using SMTPit, please read through the License Agreement
included with this archive. [LicenseAgrmnt(SMTPit_Dmo).pdf]


Description:

SMTPit is a FileMaker Pro plug-in that allows you to send email
directly from FileMaker Pro. With SMTPit, there is no need
for any external helper application, such as Eudora or Outlook.
For a complete description of how to use SMTPit, please consult
the SMTPit Guide provided with this archive in Adobe Acrobat
(PDF) format.


Contents:

- New Features in SMTPit 3.0
- Installation
- Quick Start
- Features
- Feedback
- Purchasing SMTPit
- How to Contact CNS
- SMTPit History
- Known Issues


New Features in SMTPit 3.0

SMTPit has many new features for version 3.0:

- SMTPit now supports Japanese and Central and Eastern European
    characters! No longer do you have to fool around with
    AppleScripts to convert between SJIS and JIS. SMTPit
    does it all automatically for you. All you have to do
    is type your Japanese or Central and Eastern European
    characters into your localized version of FileMaker Pro,
    and send the email!
- New Connect and Disconnect functions for use with Mass Email
    Solutions. The Send function works as it always did,
    connect, send email, disconnect, if you use it by itself.
    However, if you use the new Connect and Disconnect functions,
    the Send function will detect that you are already
    connected and will simply send the email. This makes it
    much more efficient for Mass Email Solutions.
- New Status Window. SMTPit now has the ability to show you
    what it's doing as it's doing it. You no longer have to
    wonder if it's frozen, or if it's just sending that large
    attachment.
- Support for the OS X version of FileMaker 5.5. You can now
    download a Carbonized version of SMTPit to work in OS X.
- Authentication support! SMTPit now allows you to log in to
    mail servers that require authentication before allowing
    you to send emails. SMTPit supports the Plain, Login, and
    CRAM-MD5 Authentication types.
- Better multi-tasking support for Macintosh! Now you can run
    FMP/SMTPit on the same machine as your mail server and be
    able to send email to it. (We do, however, highly recommend
    that you do not do this. You will get much better performance
    by running FMP and your mail server on two separate machines.)
- New PathToDB function to return the File Path to the folder
    containing your database. This is useful if you want to
    place your attachments in the same folder as your database,
    either for convenience, or for bound solutions that can
    be in some unknown location on the user's computer.
- Email Address Validation. SMTPit now checks the email
    addresses you give it to see if they "look" like valid
    email addresses. If SMTPit cannot find anything that
    looks like a valid email address, it will return an error.
- Better support for Multipart/Alternative Text and HTML emails.
    Now you can send emails that have a Text part, an HTML
    part, Inline HTML Images, *and* Attachments.
- New Developer's Versions that have many enhancements for
    developers, like no splash screens, and better control
    over the registration of the plug-in.
- New Port function and Default Port configuration setting. No
    longer do you have to edit the Windows Registry or the
    Macintosh Preference file just to send email to a
    different TCP/IP Port.
- Send and Connect functions can now take optional parameters,
    like bringing up a dialog if the email was sent
    successfully, or to return a transcript of the
    interaction between SMTPit and your mail server.
- Many minor bug fixes and a few other minor enhancements.

Download the newest version of SMTPit today to see all the new
features!


Installation:

Windows:

To install the plug-in on the Windows platform, first quit
FileMaker Pro if it is open. Next unzip or unstuff the contents
of the SMTPit .zip or .sit file into a directory. After you have
unzipped or unstuffed the archive file into a directory, you
should find a file in that directory named "SMTPit_WIN.fmx". This
is the plug-in file. Copy this file to the directory named
"System" inside your FileMaker Pro application directory.  This
directory is usually on your hard drive in a directory similar to
this:

c:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro\System\

If you had SMTPit installed previously, you may find a file in
your System directory named "SMTPit.fmx".  You will need to delete
this before starting FileMaker Pro so that you do not have two
versions of the plug-in installed.

After installation, you can start up FileMaker Pro, and the
plug-in should automatically be active.  You can then open the
"SMTPit_Readme.fp5" database to begin exploring SMTPit.

Macintosh:

To install the plug-in on the Macintosh platform, first quit
FileMaker Pro if it is open. Next unstuff or unzip the contents
of the SMTPit .sit or .zip file into a folder. After you have
unstuffed or unzipped the archive file into a folder, you should
find a couple of files in that folder named "SMTPit_OS9" and
"SMTPit_OSX". (If you downloaded the Windows .zip file, the Mac
plug-ins will be stuffed and named "SMTPit_OS9.sit" and
"SMTPit_OSX.sit".  You will need to unstuff them on your mac
before installing them.) These are the plug-in files, one for
each Mac OS. Copy the version that corresponds to your operating
system into the folder named "FileMaker Extensions" inside your
FileMaker Pro application folder. This folder is usually on your
hard drive in a folder similar to this:

<Your HD>:Applications:FileMaker Pro:FileMaker Extensions:

If you had SMTPit installed previously, you may find a file in
your FileMaker Extensions folder named "SMTPit".  You will need
to delete this before starting FileMaker Pro so that you do not
have two versions of the plug-in installed.

After installation, you can start up FileMaker Pro, and the
plug-in should automatically be active.  You can then open the
"SMTPit_Readme.fp5" database to begin exploring SMTPit.


Quick Start:

To begin exploring SMTPit open the SMTPit_Readme database which
has links to all of the other example databases. You can try
out any of the example databases. Please read through the SMTPit
Guide documentation PDF for a complete understanding of the each
of the databases. The documentation covers some of the scripts in
the example databases, step by step. The documentation also gives a
brief introduction to FileMaker Pro plug-ins, in case you have
never worked with them before. (For a better understanding of how
to use Plug-ins with FileMaker Pro, please see the
"How to Use Plug-ins.pdf" Guide available in this archive, or from
our website.)

All of the example database are free and are not password protected.
Feel free to examine them, change them around to test out other SMTPit
features, and just try things out. You can use the example databases
simply as examples on how to incorporate SMTPit into your own databases,
or as starting points for new databases that fit your specific needs.
Please keep in mind that the example databases are just that, examples.
They are by no means the only way to integrate SMTPit with FileMaker
Pro.


Features:

SMTPit enables you to send email directly from FileMaker Pro
using To, From, CC, BCC, Attachments, Email Headers, plus a few
added features such as a Header and a Footer that is added to the
message body. You can set a default value for most features in the
configuration box.

For a complete description of how to use SMTPit please refer to the
SMTPit_Guide.pdf file. (If you do not have Adobe Acrobat, you can
download it from Adobe at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html)


Feedback:

Comm-Unity Networking Systems would like to know how you are using
SMTPit. Send us an email telling us about your solution and we will
place a link to it on our site. We will also be creating a user
solutions section to the site for you to display solutions created
with Comm-Unity Networking Systems' plug-ins.


Demo Version:

You can evaluate SMTPit for 30 days for free, however, after 30 days,
SMTPit should be removed from your hard drive if you do not purchase
it. The demo version of SMTPit displays a splash screen and appends
a message identifying each message as being sent with a demo version
of the plug-in. Once you purchase and register your copy, the splash
screen and demo message will go away.


Purchasing SMTPit:

You can purchase SMTPit from our secure website. Simply go to
http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/ and choose the "Purchase/Prices" link
at the top of every page (in the grey area). We accept Visa,
MasterCard, and American Express. We will also accept Purchase
Orders and checks under special circumstances. Please email or
call us if you would like to purchase with a Purchase order or a
check.

Our pricing structure for SMTPit is as follows:

License             Price            Cost per License
 1 User            $ 55.00             $55.00 each
 5 User            $193.00             $38.60 each
10 User            $270.00             $27.00 each
25 User            $473.00             $19.92 each
50 User            $662.00             $13.24 each
Site / Worldwide   $927.00
Developer's        $563.00

Educational Discounts are available for roughly %20 percent off
the listed price.  If you purchase SMTPit with POP3it, you will
receive a Bundle Discount of roughly %20 percent off the combined
price.

After purchasing SMTPit, you will be sent an email receipt
containing your Registration Number.  To register SMTPit, please
use the SMTPit_Register.fp5 database.  This will turn the "demo"
version you downloaded into a "final" version.

Money made from sales will go directly back into making other
great plug-ins like SMTPit!


How to Contact CNS:

Please send any suggestions or questions to
SMTPit@comm-unity.net. Updates can be downloaded from
http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/. If you find a bug, please use our
online Bug Report form at
http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/bug_report.htm/


SMTPit History:

-- 10-22-2002 SMTPit 3.0.12 released.

Adds OpenTransport Contexts to Mac OS X to fix some connection
related problems. Fixes a problem with sending multiple inline
attachments with regular attachments on the Mac.

-- 8-20-2002 SMTPit 3.0.11 released.

Fixes a problem with 2 seat licenses.

-- 8-7-2002 SMTPit 3.0.10 released.

Several bug fixes for both Mac and Win. Better support for OS X.

-- 10-4-2001 SMTPit 3.0.7 released.

This version fixes a bug with the Register function that caused
it to fail if a previous version of SMTPit had been registered
on that machine.

-- 9-19-2001 SMTPit 3.0.6 released.

This version fixes several things. There was a small cosmetic bug
associated with a single To email address that did not have the
angled brackets around it. This bug added a space before the email
address. This also changes the Content-Type of inline jpeg images
from "image/jpg" to "image/jpeg", which seems to be more supported.
(It makes Mac Outlook Express and Win Eudora see that it is indeed
a jpeg that it can use.) Finally, this version fixes a Mac only
bug that caused the system to completely hang when closing FMP
on some systems with Mac OS 9.2.1.

-- 9-04-2001 SMTPit 3.0.4 released.

This version fixes a bug with displaying the Configuration Dialog
on Mac OS X. It also fixes a few bugs with saving the preference
files on Macs with more than one volume. This version also fixes
a bug where if the Default Host in the Configuration Dialog was
set to a single space, and no Host was defined with the
HostAssign function, then SMTPit wouldn't report a "Missing Host"
error.

-- 8-28-2001 SMTPit 3.0.3 released.

This version fixes a few bugs, mostly dealing with the Japanese
encoding of emails.

-- 8-22-2001 SMTPit 3.0.2 released.

This fixes a bug in the AssignAll function where the From
Email Address was reeiving the same email address as the To
Email Address.

-- 8-21-2001 SMTPit 3.0.1 released.

This fixes a bug on the Macintosh where the Headers and Footers
in the Configuration Dialog were getting cut off at 255
characters.

-- 8-6-2001  SMTPit 3.0.0 Final released.

This is the official release of SMTPit 3.0.0 Final. This release
also fixes a problem where the Content-Transfer-Encoding of
Japanese emails was set improperly. It now is set to the correct
"7bit" that it needs to be in order for Japanese email clients
to correctly interpret the email. It also fixed a bug where the
To, CC, and From email addresses were not getting encoded
properly.

-- 8-4-2001 SMTPit 3.0.0b4 released.

This version adds support for Localized character in the To, CC,
From, and User Defined Headers. It also fixes a small bug
introduced in Mac 3.0.0b3 where random characters would show up in
the HTML body where blank lines should be.

-- 8-1-2001 SMTPit 3.0.0b3 released.

This version fixes a few more spelling mistakes in the Mac
Configuration Dialog. It also fixes a problem when multiple
inline HTML images are on the same line.

-- 7-25-2001 SMTPit 3.0.0b2 released.

This version fixed the Macintosh status window to correctly show
the information. It also fixed a few spelling mistakes in the Mac
Configuration Dialog.

-- 7-23-2001 SMTPit 3.0.0b1 released.

This version brings many enhancements and new features to
SMTPit, including Japanese and Central and European
character support, a new Status Window, OS X support, new
Connect and Disconnect buttons, Authentication support,
and many other things.

-- 8-10-2000 SMTPit 2.5.0 officially released out of beta.

This version fixes a few bugs that were brought to our attention
in the beta testing period. It also adds one new feature: the
ability to define the column where SMTPit breaks lines before
sending to the mail server.

-- 7-26-2000 SMTPit 2.5.0b1 released.

This version adds HTML Email support and Inline HTML Images for
your HTML emails. The Macintosh version has now been stabilized
and both Macintosh and Windows versions are equal in
functionality and features.

-- 6-4-99 SMTPit 2.0 released.

This version brings attachments, email headers, better
documentation, new dialog boxes, and plug-in registration so that
you only have to download it once.

-- 4-16-99  SMTPit 1.03 released.

This version fixes a few bugs.  Headers and footers will now show
returns appropriately.  This version also adds a new function:
SMTP-FromNameAssign which will allow you to set a from name.  Also
added is a default from name in the configuration box.

-- 3-22-99  SMTPit 1.0 released.

-- 3-10-99  First public release, version 1.0b1

Known Issues:

-- Windows: There is a problem if you send an email message with
SMTPit and then break your internet connection by hand.  To solve the
problem, make sure that you have an internet connection before you
start sending email, and maintain that connection until you are
through sending email.  If you have to break the connection, make
sure to reestablish your connection before sending email again.

-- Windows: When the Configuration Dialog is open, and you open up
the "Add Email Header" Dialog, or the "Register" Dialog, and then
switch applications, when you switch back to FileMaker, the extra
dialog is not always on top. Work Around: Click on the Dialog Window
on your Task Bar (next to the "Start" button).

-- Macintosh: You must close the SMTPit Status Window before
closing FileMaker Pro. If you do not, FileMaker Pro will give
you an error stating that it cannot write to the disk. The
easiest way to ensure that the SMTPit Status Window is closed
is to put a call to SMTP-HideStatus in a Close script that
you define in Edit->Preferences->Document for your main
database.


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