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Thanks for the background information, Gambit.

Best regards,

Peter Evans.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message 
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> "Peter Evans" wrote in message
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>> Yes, I saw there are some Indy components in BCB6, but didn't
>> see ones for POP3 and SMTP, unless I didn't see them!
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> They should be there.  But like I said earlier, the version of Indy that
> ships with BCB 6 is very old.  You should upgrade to at least Indy 9.  The
> current snapshot build is 9.0.50.
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>> There being 3 versions of Indy around, 8, 9 & 10, how do they
>> interrelate from the point of view of upwards compatibility?
>
> They don't.  Each version has many changes from the previous one.  In the
> case of 9->10 in particular, there are major interface changes because 
> Indy
> 10 is the first version to support .NET, which required a big re-write of
> Indy's architecture since .NET does not allow raw memory pointers and 
> such.
> A lot of parameters changed data types and/or moved to new locations.
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>> How will a future Indy 11 fit into this progression?
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> It will likely change again.  Right now, Indy is undergoing a small 
> re-write
> in order to support FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org), which will 
> bring
> Indy to even more platforms.  There is also a separate port of Indy in the
> works to re-write it in pure C# for .NET.
>
>> do I correctly infer you are telling me to wait until about Jan06
>> before I start to try to install Indy 10 into my BCB 6?
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> There are ways to install Indy 10 in BCB 6 right now.  There are 
> third-party
> packages and instructions floating around.  But at this moment, Indy 10 
> does
> not officially support any version of BCB.
>
>> Also at that time could there be a developed Install (or tested set
>> instructions for the same) with the 'C++ support' mentioned as I
>> do feel very uncertain about doing this after reading the various
>> posts related to Indy installations.?
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> Indy 10 has a different install architecture than Indy 8 and 9 did.
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> Gambit
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