Tuto WEBDEV 25

216 Part 5: Let’s continue the development Overview Several WLanguage functions allow you to manage the incoming and outgoing emails. You also have the ability to access the email characteristics: • sender, recipients, • outgoing date, subject, message, • attachments... WEBDEV proposes several methods for managing emails: • Management via Lotus Notes, Outloook or MS Exchange: • The Lotus Notes or Outlook messaging software : these programs allow you to send and receive emails. • The " Simple Mail API " (also called SMAPI or Simple MAPI): this management mode of emails is used by most of the Microsoft applications, especially by Microsoft Exchange. • Management via the POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols: • The POP3 protocol: this protocol for receiving emails is recognized by all service providers. It is used to communicate with the server directly, available at your ISP. This protocol is used to list the incoming messages and to read them. • The IMAP protocol: this protocol for receiving emails allows you to leave the emails on the server so that they can be viewed from different messaging clients or webmail. • The SMTP protocol: this protocol for sending emails is recognized by all service providers. In this lesson, we are going to create a Popup page allowing the user to email a suggestion to the site developer. This popup is as follows: To do so, we will be using the SMTP protocol. Indeed, this mode is commonly used all over the world. See the online help for more details about the other methods.