>Has anyone used Catalyst 2.12 Socket Tools with VFP 5.0? I'm having some difficulty getting the mail controls to work. The mail control never throws any errors, but it also never connects. If anyone's got any experience, or has an idea of somewhere to look, it would help a lot.
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>Thanks in advance.

Richard,

I use Catalyst controls version 1.0. I mainly using FTP and Winsock but had used the SMTP without problem. I basically used their VB example converted to VFP and I had no problems.

* Connect to SMTP server
this.cCompleted="no"
this.txtStatus.value = "Connecting..."


with this.MailControl
.Blocking = .f.
.HostName = this.txtSMTPServer.value
.RemoteService = "smtp"
.Action=1
endwith

* Identify ourselves to the server
this.txtStatus.value = "Address..."

this.MailControl.Address = this.txtFrom.value
this.MailControl.AddressMail()

* Send recipient addresses to the server
this.MailControl.Recipient = this.txtSendto.value

* Send header info to the server
dMsgDate = this.MailControl.DateStamp
cHeaderInfo1 = "From: " + alltrim(this.txtfrom.value) &&+ chr(13)+chr(10)
cHeaderInfo2 = "To: " + this.txtSendto.value + chr(13)+chr(10)
cHeaderInfo3 = "Date: " + dMsgDate + chr(13)+chr(10)
cHeaderInfo4 = "Subject: " + this.txtSubject.value + chr(13)+chr(10)
cHeaderInfo=""
cHeaderInfo =cHeaderInfo + "From: " + this.txtfrom.value + chr(13)
cHeaderInfo =cHeaderInfo + "To: " + this.txtSendto.value + chr(13)
cHeaderInfo =cHeaderInfo + "Date: " + dMsgDate + chr(13)
cHeaderInfo =cHeaderInfo + "Subject: " + this.txtSubject.value + chr(13)
cHeaderInfo5=chr(13)+chr(10)

this.txtStatus.value = "Sending Header"

For i = 1 To 5
cSendData=eval('cHeaderInfo'+ltrim(str(i)) )
this.MailControl.SendLen = Len(cSendData)
this.MailControl.SendData = cSendData
Next i

* Send the body of the message to the server
this.txtStatus.value = "Message..."

this.MailControl.SendLen = Len(alltrim(this.edtMessage.value))
this.MailControl.SendData = alltrim(this.edtMessage.value)

* Notify SMTP server to deliver message
this.MailControl.SendMail()
* Disconnect from SMTP server

this.txtStatus.value = "Disconnecting..."
this.MailControl.action=2
this.txtStatus.value = "Completed ..."
this.cCompleted="yes"