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Harvey Brown · Guest

I am using Indy TidSMTP to send email from my program but it won't work
in many school districts which have some kind of limitation on their
email servers - they say "only Outlook works". Does anyone know what
the problem is? The Indy 9 component uses SMTP authentication, which
they call "at login" authentication. Perhaps Outlook uses "secure SMTP
authentication", whatever that is.

I did find a method of calling outlook via OLE to send a message
(http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa020304a.htm)
Perhaps that will work.

My application is a teacher's marksheet program that sends the marks
home to parents by email. It sends 20 or 30 messages at a time.

Any insights will be appreciated!!

Maarten Wiltink · Guest

"Harvey Brown" <harveybrown2 (AT) pwsb33 (DOT) ab.ca> wrote

vertuas · Guest

There is a header that outlook/ outlookexpress generate to identify
themseves

I dunno what the header name is, or the value it is set to, but i have seem
this problem before

you will have to get the TidSMTP component to generate the extra header

"Harvey Brown" <harveybrown2 (AT) pwsb33 (DOT) ab.ca> wrote

Harvey Brown · Guest

At the Indy site, they say the new version 10 will have several new
authentication methods including encrypted ones. Perhaps one of these
will handle the secure authentication that is a feature of Outlook.

I was not able to send the messages through Outlook via OLE, either.
The code at (http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa020304a.htm)
appears to work, but nothing happens at the Outlook end.