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Faxing from VFP
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10/11/1997 11:25:43
Edward Crawford
City Facilities Management
Glasgow, United Kingdom
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Third party products
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00058435
Message ID:
00059287
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37
>To Edward Crawford
>
>>You can fax from VFP using MAPI and Exchange. Here is how:
>>
>>1. Go to your exchange profile Delivery tab and make sure that the
>>Microsoft Fax Delivery Transport is the first item on the list. If it is
>
>>not you will get errors
>>
>>2. Place the MAPI SESSION (oleSession) AND MAPI MESSAGE (oleMessage) OLE
>
>>objects on your form
>>
>>3. Place the following code in the Init Method of your form:
>>thisform.oleSession.LogonUI = .F.
>>thisform.oleSession.UserName="MS Exchange Settings" (Name of your
>
>>
>
>>Exchange profile)
>>4. Create a method on your form called SendFax, and in it place the
>>following code:
>>thisform.oleSession.Signon() && this signs you on to a
>>session
>>thisform.oleMessage.SessionId = thisform.oleSession.SessionId
>>thisform.oleMessage.Compose()
>>thisform.oleMessage.MsgIndex = -1
>>thisform.oleMessage.RecipDisplayName ="[FAX:555-5555]" &&
>>Recipient's fax
>
>>number
>>thisform.oleMessage.MsgSubject = "This is your Subject"
>>thisform.oleMessage.MsgNotText = "This is your Message Text"
>>thisform.oleMessage.ResolveName() && this acually sends it
>>thisform.oleMessage.Message.Send(.F.) && this supresses dialog
>box
>>thisform.oleSession.Signoff() && sign off mail
>>
>>5. Just gather your data and place them in the appropriate places and
>call
>>thisform.SendFax().
>>
>
>This seem to be the best way to do it with Win95, did you ever do it with
>Windows NT Workstation?

No I have not. But it should work if you can install MS Exchange on NT
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