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Question: Is it possible to delete email sitting on the POP3 server based on its age? For example, have it only delete mail from server older than 5 days. Answer: The POP3 protocol itself does not have the direct ability to delete email based on date/time (or any other selection criteria). The POP3 protocol only provides the ability to delete […]
Question: I would like to use your product to process mail on an MS Exchange server. Which product should I use; Chilkat MAIL or Chilkat IMAP? I saw in your examples that I can use both to connect to an Exchange server MAIL with Pop3 and IMAP for a direct login on the server but which one is the best […]
To append to an existing file using the Chilkat SFTP component / library, open the file for “writeOnly” and “openExisting”, then call any of the Write* methods (such as WriteFileText or WriteFileBytes), and then close the handle by calling CloseHandle. As always, if a method returns a failed status, check the contents of the LastErrorText property.
Question: I use SendMimeBytes Method of Mailman object to send Domain Keys Verified e-mails. But when I use this method I can’ t use BounceAddress property to set up bounce addresses. For this reason I can’t get bounced e-mails as I want. When I use SendMail Method everything is ok. What should I do to get bounce messages the address […]
A Chilkat method that returns an object must be checked for NULL ( also known as Nothing, nil, nada, etc. in other programming languages). A NULL return value indicates failure. In this case, check the contents of the object instance’s LastErrorText property. In Visual Basic 6.0, this is the error message you’d get when trying to dereference a NULL object […]
Here is an example for monitoring the progress of an SFTP file transfer: void sftp_OnPercentDone(object sender, Chilkat.PercentDoneEventArgs args) { progressBar1.Value = args.PercentDone; // To abort at any point, you may set args.Abort = true // args.Abort = true; } void sftp_OnAbortCheck(object sender, Chilkat.AbortCheckEventArgs args) { // See https://cknotes.com/?p=149 for more information about // using the AbortCheck event… } private void […]
The PercentDone event is called when the percentage completion increases by one or more points. To use events in VB6, Dim the variable WithEvents. Then name the event callback using the variable name. (You should already understand how to use VB6 events in general prior to using the Chilkat objects. A good VB6 book is “Programming Visual Basic 6.0” by […]
To upload a file via FTP to an HP3000 server, you would type something like this from an interactive FTP prompt: Put myfile.txt myfile;rec=-32,1,f,ascii;disc=250000 To duplicate this with Chilkat, call PutFile such that the remote filename is “myfile;rec=-32,1,f,ascii;disc=250000”. For example: // This is a C# example, but the same concept applies w/ using Chilkat in any of the supported // […]
SMTP (MailMan) Added the MailMan.SendMimeBytes method to allow for sending the exact MIME source of an email from a byte array. This is useful for emails that have 8bit encodings. (With ActiveX, byte arrays are passed as Variants containing a byte array.) This method is also useful for sending DKIM signed email, because the output of the Chilkat.Dkim signature creation […]
Two recent customer support issues prompted this post. In both cases, the error reported by the SFTP server was both lacking in information as well as somewhat misleading. One brand of server was: SSH-2.0-http://www.sshtools.com J2SSH [SERVER] The other was: SSH-2.0-WS_FTP-SSH_7.1 With the 1st SSH server, the following error occurred when trying to open a file: OpenFile: DllDate: Jun 10 2009 […]