Get into Indy easily?

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2 total messages Started by Peter Evans Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:29

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Author: Peter Evans
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:29

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Hello to BCB / Indy experts,

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.  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.

To help me decide, can someone firstly tell me if the problems with HTML 
emailing have been fully sorted out in the new compiler's components?  (Will 
it send HTML emails that can be read as such, for example?)

Secondly, as I have no experience of Indy whatsoever, I am rather daunted by 
the few posts and replies I have seen mentioning various problems when 
installing it into a BCB environment.  My second question is, therefore: 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?  ( I'm sure such a reliable guide would bring 
more BCB users onboard.)  Another quick question is how do I decided which 
of the two Indy versions to choose - 9 or 10?  Indeed, are there others to 
consider?

I look forward to hearing.

Thanks in advance.

Peter Evans.

Re: Get into Indy easily?

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Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:51

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"Peter Evans" <peter-evans@pelcaro.com> wrote in message
news:43842867@newsgroups.borland.com...

> 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

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