GeoCel DevMailertm 1.5

Interface Specifications



In lieu of examples for each and every DevMailer feature, below is a full specification of all Properties and Methods. On the DevMailer Home Page, you can find a variety of examples featuring these options:
   Basic Required Properties/Methods
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
String
R / W )
FromAddress
Mailer.FromAddress = "email@domain.com" 
DevMailer
Address message is sent from. Replies go to this address by default, but can be optionally be redirected by the ReplyTo property.  
Property
String
R / W )
Body
Mailer.Body = "Test message body." 
none
Message body  
Method AddServer(server, port)
Mailer.AddServer "mail", 25 
Mailer.AddServer "backup.domain.com", 25  
port usually 25
Add a mail server. Multiple mail servers can be added, and if the first does connect DevMailer will try the next. The number of redundant servers is unlimited.  
Method AddRecipient(email, name)
Mailer.AddRecipient "email@domain.com", "John Doe"
Mailer.AddRecipient "email2@domain.com", ""  
none
Add a recipient. A friendly name can be specified, in which case the email address would appear "Email Recipient ". Every message must have at least one recipient (can be TO:, CC:, or BCC:). The friendly name can be left blank.  
Method AddMultipleRecipients(email_list)
Mailer.AddMultipleRecipients "email1@domain.com, email2@domain.com; email3@domain.com"
 
none
Add multiple recipients via a comma or semi-colon delimited list of addresses.  
Method AddMultipleCCRecipients(email_list)
Mailer.AddMultipleCCRecipients "email1@domain.com, email2@domain.com; email3@domain.com"
 
none
Add multiple CC: recipients via a comma or semi-colon delimited list of addresses.  
Method AddMultipleBCCRecipients(email_list)
Mailer.AddMultipleBCCRecipients "email1@domain.com, email2@domain.com; email3@domain.com"
 
none
Add multiple BCC recipients via a comma or semi-colon delimited list of addresses.  
Method
Boolean
Send()
Success = Mailer.Send()
If Success = True Then 
 Write "Message sent successfully."
Else
 Write "Message could not be sent."
  If Mailer.Queued = True Then
     Write "Message Queued Instead."
  End If
End If 
none
Send specified Message to specified Recipients via specified Server. Returns FALSE if message cannot be delivered.  
   Optional Address Properties/Methods
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
String
R / W )
FromName
Mailer.FromName = "John Doe" 
none
Friendly name message is sent from. This is usually displayed in email client programs.  
Property
String
R / W )
ReplyTo
Mailer.ReplyTo = "email@domain.com" 
none
This property specifies a separate Reply-To address for this message. This overrides the FromAddress when a email client replies to this message. (ie. email@domain.com)  
Method AddCCRecipient(Email, Name)
Mailer.AddCCRecipient "email@domain.com", "John Doe"  
none
Add a CC: recipient. A friendly name can be specified, in which case the email address would appear "Email Recipient ". CC: recipients are displayed on a separate header line than TO: recipients.  
Method AddBCCRecipient(Email, Name)
Mailer.AddBCCRecipient "email@domain.com", "John Doe"  
none
Add a BCC: recipient. A friendly name can be specified, but is not displayed. BCC: recipients are never displayed in the message header.  
Method ClearAllRecipients()
Mailer.ClearAllRecipients 
none
Clear all TO:, CC:, and BCC: recipients.  
Method ClearToRecipients()
Mailer.ClearToRecipients 
none
Clear all TO: recipients.  
Method ClearCCRecipients()
Mailer.ClearCCRecipients 
none
Clear all CC: recipients.  
Method ClearBCCRecipients()
Mailer.ClearBCCRecipients 
none
Clear all BCC: recipients.  
   Optional Header Properties
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
String
R / W )
Subject
Mailer.Subject = "This is the new Subject" 
none
Subject of the message being sent.  
Property
Integer
R / W )
Priority
Mailer.Priority = 1 
0
Sets the X-Priority setting in the Message Header. Valid settings are 0 [disabled], and 1 [highest] - 5 [lowest].  
Property
String
R / W )
ContentType
Mailer.ContentType = "text/html" 
"text/plain"
Content-Type for the Body of the message. To create HTML Email set this property to "text/html".  
Property
String
R / W )
CharSet
Mailer.CharSet = "ISO-8859-1" 
"us-ascii"
Character Set used in the Message Body.  
Property
Boolean
R / W )
SendRawBody
Mailer.SendRawBody = True 
FALSE
Send raw message body, as in Body property. Setting this value to TRUE will cause Header information to be ignored, and will only send the Body. If necessary, a header can be faked here.  
Method AddRawHeader(name, value)
Mailer.AddRawHeader "X-Organization", "Imaginary Company" 
none
Add a Custom Header field. For example: AddRawHeader("TO","email@domain").  
   Attachment Methods
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Method
Boolean
AddAttachment(filename)
Success = Mailer.AddAttachment(FileName)
If Success = False Then
  Write "Could not add attachment"
End If 
none
Adds an file attachment to the message. Currently, only MIME attachments are supported. Returns TRUE upon success and FALSE upon failure.  
Method ClearAllAttachments()
Mailer.ClearAllAttachments 
none
Clears any existing File Attachments.  
   Advanced Connection Properties/Methods
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
Integer
R / W )
ConnectTimeout
Mailer.ConnectTimeout = 30 
60
Number of seconds to wait for an SMTP Connection.  
Method
Boolean
Connect()
Success = Mailer.Connect()
If Success = False Then 
  Write "Connection Failed."
End If 
none
Manually force Connection to SMTP Server. Send() can be called several times on one connection. By default, this is called automatically by Send(), however Send() will use an existing connection if available. Returns TRUE upon success and FALSE upon failure.  
Method
Boolean
Disconnect()
Success = Mailer.Disconnect()
If Success = False Then 
  Write "Disconnect Failed."
End If 
none
Manually disconnect from SMTP Server. This should correspond to a manual Connect() call. Returns TRUE upon success and FALSE upon failure.  
Method Reset()
Mailer.Reset
 
none
Reset SMTP Connection State and Message settings. If connected, "RSET" is sent to the SMTP Server to reset the server state.  
   Failsafe Queue Properties/Methods
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
Boolean
R / W )
QueueAutomatically
Mailer.QueueAutomatically = False 
True
Use this property to control the Auto-Queue feature. By default, messages for which Send() fails are automatically Queued.  
Property
Boolean
R / W )
Queued
If Mailer.Queued = True Then
  Write "Message Successfully Queued"
End If 
False
This boolean value is True when the last Send() command failed, and the message was successfully Queued.  
Property
String
R / W )
QueueDirectory
Mailer.QueueDirectory = "D:\DMQUEUE" 
C:\TEMP
This property allows the user to specify a custom Queue directory. The user which DevMailer is running as should have full control of this directory.  
Method
Boolean
QueueMessage()
Mailer.QueueMessage() 
none
Use this method to Queue the current message. This can only be called once per message. This is automatically called if a server-error occurs while attempting to send a message (and QueueAutomatically = True).  
Method
Integer
FlushQueue()
Mailer.FlushQueue() 
none
Use this method to flush the message Queue. All .QDM files in QueueDirectory will be processed. Any messages which fail for non-server reasons are renamed to "FILENAME.QDM.ERR". This is automatically called by Send() when a successful message is sent (and QueueAutomatically = True). Returns the number of messages flushed from Queue.  
   Message File Methods
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Method
Boolean
LoadBodyFromFile(filename)
Success = Mailer.LoadBodyFromFile("C:\TEMP\REPORT.TXT")
If Success = False Then
  Write "Could not load body file."
End If 
none
This method loads the contents of a specified file into the Body of the message. This should be an ASCII file.  
Method
Boolean
LoadMessageFromFile(filename)
Success = Mailer.LoadMessageFromFile("C:\TEMP\REPORT.TXT")
If Success = False Then
  Write "Could not load message file."
End If 
none
This method loads the contents of a standard message file into DevMailer. This parses all relevant header information. This can be used to manually load a Queued message file.  
   Demo/Version Properties
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
Boolean
R / W )
IsDemo
If Mailer.IsDemo = True Then
  Write "This is the Demo Version."
End If 
True in Demo
False Otherwise
True if this is the Demo version, False if this is a licensed version.  
Property
Integer
R / W )
DemoUsesLeft
Success = Mailer.LoadMessageFromFile("C:\TEMP\REPORT.TXT")
If Success = False Then
  Write "Could not load message file."
End If 
250 demo uses
Integer value of Remaing Demo Uses. If IsDemo = True, 0 means that all uses have expired.  
Property
String
R / W )
Version
Write "Software version : " & Mailer.Version 
"Geocel DevMailer 1.0"
String value of Product/Version information.  
   LogFile Properties
Type Name VB Usage Example Default
Property
Level
R / W )
LogLevel
Mailer.LogLevel = 0 ' Turn Logging Off
Mailer.LogLevel = 5 ' Verbose Logging  
2 - Success
0 - None
1 - Basic (failures only)
2 - Success (log successful sends)
3 - Extended
4 - Verbose (Greatest Logging)
 
Property
String
R / W )
LogFile
Mailer.Logfile = "C:\LOGS\DEVMAILER.LOG"  
"C:\TEMP\GEOCEL.LOG"
This is the name of the logfile you wish to use. This of course can be any UNC path.