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The following utilities have all been recommended in MV forums for e-mailing from MV BASIC. Most of these are not Pick-based programs, so the general approach is to EXECUTE "!command " : OPTIONS in order to send your email. Some software is for free, some for fee, and quality often varies completely independent of the cost. If you know of other options, please update this list.

Since we're here, note that e-mailing to a cell/mobile phone is not the same as SMS. Lookup SMS in a search engine for details, or see http://www.twilio.com

== Under Unix ==
* Sendmail
* Mutt http://www.mutt.org/
* UUEnview[[/UUDeview]] http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ (handles base64/mime-encoding, just an apt-get away)

== Under Windows ==
* BLAT 
** http://sourceforge.net/projects/blat 
** http://www.blat.net/
* <nowiki>PixieRobot</nowiki> http://www.pixieware.com/databyemail.htm
* <nowiki>ActiveFax</nowiki> (for fax and e-mail) http://www.actfax.com/
* Ask about Visage.Emailer: http://www.stamina.com.au
* <nowiki>PrintWizard</nowiki> http://www.anzio.com/
* <nowiki>NebulaMail</nowiki> http://nebula-rnd.com/products/mail.htm
* <nowiki>PicLan</nowiki>-IP Mail Server http://piclan.com/over-mail.htm
* Postie http://www.infradig.com/ (Shareware, author site is erratic, try [http://www.brothersoft.com/postie-10818.html here])

== Retrieving e-mail : POP3 / IMAP ==
* http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html
* <nowiki>NebulaMail</nowiki> http://nebula-rnd.com/products/mail.htm
* Postie http://www.infradig.com/
* http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
* Forum discussion [http://listserver.u2ug.org/pipermail/u2-users/2009-June/000361.html here]

Since fax is mentioned above, another utility used for fax with MV is [http://www.esker.com/products/fax_software_unix.asp VSI-FAX]

= Usage Examples ==
== Examples for Unix, sendmail and others ==
WRITE MAIL.BODY ON DIR.F, "MAIL"
EXECUTE "!mail -s test user@domain.com < /path/to/dir.f[[/MAIL]]"
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/9ee197e923cc730a/9a3ae5a4e71762a0?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=group:comp.databases.pick+Infinetivity sendmail example] provided by Jeff Kaufman in CDP
* Another [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/msg/9b8b565ec6645fa4?hl=en sendmail example] by Glen Batchelor

From Frank Winans
OPEN "unix:/tmp" to F.TMP else stop 'tmp'
BODY = "HELLO" :@AM:"LINE TWO OF EMAIL"
WRITE BODY ON F.TMP,'foo.txt'
CMD = "!cat /tmp/foo.txt | mail "
CMD := " -s 'my email subject' "
CMD := " someb...@somewhere.com"
CMD := " ; rm /tmp/foo.txt"
EXECUTE CMD CAPTURING BUCKET

A UUEnview Example
<pre>
* This will present the file as a base64 mime-encoded attachment
E=\!uuenview -b -f "\:FROM.USER:\" -m "\:RECIP:\" -s "\:SUBJECT:\" \:LOCATION
EXECUTE E
</pre>

== Examples for Windows ==
=== Blat ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/40ca166c488cf608 Full code] from Ricky Ginsburg
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/426ec51416b7e9f4 Another code base] from Robert Uiterwyk
* Brian Leach posted a note [http://212.241.202.162/cms/cmsforum.wsp?action=topic&forum=6&topic=171 here] that shows how to send with BLAT, and also shows how to create a direct verb pointer.

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The following utilities have all been recommended in MV forums for e-mailing from MV BASIC. Most of these are not Pick-based programs, so the general approach is to EXECUTE "!command " : OPTIONS in order to send your email. Some software is for free, some for fee, and quality often varies completely independent of the cost. If you know of other options, please update this list.

Since we're here, note that e-mailing to a cell/mobile phone is not the same as SMS. Lookup SMS in a search engine for details.

== Under Unix ==
* Sendmail
* Mutt http://www.mutt.org/

== Under Windows ==
* BLAT 
** http://sourceforge.net/projects/blat 
** http://www.blat.net/
* <nowiki>PixieRobot</nowiki> http://www.pixieware.com/databyemail.htm
* <nowiki>ActiveFax</nowiki> (for fax and e-mail) http://www.actfax.com/
* Ask about Visage.Emailer: http://www.stamina.com.au
* <nowiki>PrintWizard</nowiki> http://www.anzio.com/
* <nowiki>NebulaMail</nowiki> http://nebula-rnd.com/products/mail.htm
* <nowiki>PicLan</nowiki>-IP Mail Server http://piclan.com/over-mail.htm
* Postie http://www.infradig.com/ (Shareware, author site is erratic, try [http://www.brothersoft.com/postie-10818.html here])

== Retrieving e-mail : POP3 / IMAP ==
* http://pages.interlog.com/~tcharron/getmail.html
* <nowiki>NebulaMail</nowiki> http://nebula-rnd.com/products/mail.htm
* Postie http://www.infradig.com/
* http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
* Forum discussion [http://listserver.u2ug.org/pipermail/u2-users/2009-June/000361.html here]

Since fax is mentioned above, another utility used for fax with MV is [http://www.esker.com/products/fax_software_unix.asp VSI-FAX]

= Usage Examples ==
== Examples for Unix, sendmail and others ==
WRITE MAIL.BODY ON DIR.F, "MAIL"
EXECUTE "!mail -s test user@domain.com < /path/to/dir.f/MAIL"
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/9ee197e923cc730a/9a3ae5a4e71762a0?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=group:comp.databases.pick+Infinetivity sendmail example] provided by Jeff Kaufman in CDP
* Another [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/msg/9b8b565ec6645fa4?hl=en sendmail example] by Glen Batchelor

From Frank Winans
OPEN "unix:/tmp" to F.TMP else stop 'tmp'
BODY = "HELLO" :@AM:"LINE TWO OF EMAIL"
WRITE BODY ON F.TMP,'foo.txt'
CMD = "!cat /tmp/foo.txt | mail "
CMD := " -s 'my email subject' "
CMD := " someb...@somewhere.com"
CMD := " ; rm /tmp/foo.txt"
EXECUTE CMD CAPTURING BUCKET

== Examples for Windows ==
=== Blat ===
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/40ca166c488cf608 Full code] from Ricky Ginsburg
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_frm/thread/426ec51416b7e9f4 Another code base] from Robert Uiterwyk
* Brian Leach posted a note [http://212.241.202.162/cms/cmsforum.wsp?action=topic&forum=6&topic=171 here] that shows how to send with BLAT, and also shows how to create a direct verb pointer.

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