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Thank you for your reply, Gambit.

Re the NetMaster stuff, it didn't occur to me that the email components 
would be quite so flaky.  I've implemented a browser using their HTTP 
component and it was really quite smooth.  The product has been running 
faultlessly for a couple of years; I just didn't suspect the code. 
Personally, I tend to think that I'm not correctly interpreting the 
semantics when things don't go right and keep digging further into the code 
until there is no further to go, at which point the problem is either 
solved, or there's an error in the system.  I really don't give up easily.

Having said that, I was rather disappointed to read your comment that the 
components in the new upgrade are not likely to help me.  If NetMaster have 
been known to be pretty bad for sometime, there has been time to do 
something about it, i.e., pick it up and get it sorted out with another 
supplier or change to someone else's, keeping where possible as much of the 
syntax as is reasonable.  Indeed, getting an up-to-date Indy version in 
there, wouldn't be a bad solution.  I feel let down by all this, especially 
when considering the price of the product.  You can imagine, too, that I 
don't really want to throw away a fair proportion of the effort I've 
invested so far.

Ok, that's the grump, so to reality!  I have to go to Indy 10 for what I 
want (snd/rec HTML mails).  On reading the posts and web pages on installing 
Indy 10 I am a bit put off by some of the guess work that seems needed, 
which is why I asked if there existed something easy to follow.  Yes, I 
found the 'INDY10Install' page and will have a go at it.

Any other helpful hints are welcome.

Peter Evans.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
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> "Peter Evans" <peter-evans@pelcaro.com> wrote in message
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>> Following a long and bad experience trying to use the
>> NMSMTP & NMPOP3 components in my BCB6 Pro
>> for HTML email I am finally on the point of giving up.
>
> The NetMaster components are notoriously buggy and problematic.  People 
> have
> been complaining about them for years.  It is a shame that you are only 
> now
> realizing it for yourself.
>
>> I still want to complete my project of a small mail server
>> (for a charity), however, so it seems there are two options,
>> either to upgrade to Borland's new BCB or install Indy.
>
> Upgrading to the new BCB alone won't guarantee you success in what you are
> asking.  BCB has a product has no concept of email or HTML or most 
> internet
> protocols.  You need third-party libraries/components for that, or else
> write your own socket code from scratch.  All of that can be done in BCB 6
> today.  A compiler upgrade will not help or hinder you one way or the 
> other
> on this issue.
>
>> Is there web page giving an idiot's step-by-step guide to
>> the installation of Indy alongside / into my BCB6 Pro that
>> I could follow 'blindly' and which will be successful first shot?
>
> Indy 9 natively supports BCB, and there are upgrade instructions on Indy's
> website for upgrading the version of Indy that is shipped with BCB 6.
>
>> how do I decided which of the two Indy versions to choose - 9 or 10?
>
> For sending HTML mails, you should definately use Indy 10.  It has a lot
> more support for properly formatting MIME data than Indy 9 does.  I even
> wrote a blog article on Indy's website that specifically describes how to
> send HTML mail in Indy 10.
>
> However, Indy 10 does not natively support BCB at this time, although 
> there
> are ways to install it into BCB 6 manually should you not mind a little
> extra work on your part to get that far.  There are third-party packages
> BCB6 floating around online for this.  Or you can try manually porting the
> Indy 9 batch files to install the Indy 10 Delphi packages into BCB.
>
>
> Gambit
>
>