The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]
Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]
Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning. Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes. […]
This error can happen if you connect to an IMAP server without SSL/TLS (i.e. at port 143) but the server does not allow unsecure sessions. Oddly enough, the Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 server will accept the connection, but will fail any login attempt with this error. Here is a sample SessionLog: Connecting to IMAP server at […]
A Chilkat customer experienced the following behavior with Exchange Server in response to an IMAP login. This is the (edited) contents of the IMAP object’s SessionLog property: —-INFO—- Connecting to IMAP server at ***:143 —-IMAP RESPONSE—- * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready. —-IMAP REQUEST—- aaab LOGIN “***” —-IMAP RESPONSE—- aaab BAD Command […]
Question: After I send an email using Chilkat, I don’t see the email in the “Sent Items” folder in Exchange. How can this be done? Is it possible? Answer: The “Sent Items” folder is specific to Exchange/Outlook — it is not part of the SMTP protocol. You may use Chilkat IMAP to “append” a copy […]
Question: May I ask if is possible use Chilkat components to connect to MS Exchange 6.5 and higher ? I am thinking about purchase of MailMan component or other as it is, however I would like read some example in C# for reading emails from Exchange and sending emails via Exchange after connecting to the […]
This just came to our attention. When sending email using Exchange Server, a Ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit Permissions problem seems like an incorrect login/password error. A sample of the Chilkat.MailMan’s LastErrorXml is shown below. To get more information, Google “Ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit permission”… <ChilkatLog> <SendEmail> <DllDate>Mar 6 2009</DllDate> <UnlockPrefix>anything for 30-day trial</UnlockPrefix> <Username>***</Username> <Component>Java</Component> <Recipients> <NumTo>1</NumTo> <To>***</To> <NumCC>0</NumCC> <NumBCC>0</NumBCC> </Recipients> […]
Question: We are currently using Chilkat to retrieve e-mail for a number of our applications. A client of ours has updated their exchange mail server and they have disabled the pop3 service because of authentication issues (the user/password is sent unencrypted and would be a threat). Are there any other possibilities within the scope of […]
Question: I am using your email ActiveX control and wanted to know if there is a way to update MS Outlook in the sent folder with the email I am sending with your control? Answer: Email clients communicate with email servers using a well-known protocol. Email clients do not generally communicate with other email clients. […]
