We are proud to announce the immediate availability of the Imap-Plugin version 2 which is now called MailPro-Plugin. The name change is due to the fact that the plugin now handles IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
The MailPro-Plugin offers the following features (short list):
Imap accounts: connect to Imap servers such as MS Exchange, get all folders, create folders
Imap folders: retrieve messages, add/delete/copy messages, get message counters, get folder parameters, search messages, get quotas and more…
Mail messages: get/set all headers and properties of a message, get/set addresses in flexible ways, set flags as “deleted”, “read”, “seen”, etc., create own headers, create and read attachment, save to file, handles text and html, embeds images
Receive messages in background: MailPro can download messages while the user of the solution can continue to work normally (without be blocked and having to wait until all messages are transferred)
Receive messages automatically: MailPro can receive notifications from the mail server, get the messages and call a global method that can save those messages to the database
POP3 accounts: connect to POP3 servers, retrieve messages, get message uids, get messages by index
SMTP accounts: connect to SMTP servers, create messages with great flexibility, send messages and save sent messages to a folder on an IMAP server (“Sent items”)
MailPro makes seemless email integration possible. Messages that have been read in a Servoy solution can be updated on the server and will appear in e.g. MS Outlook as read. Deleted messages can disappear as well. You can easily subscribe to IMAP folders and keep the server and the data of your solution in synch. Messages that have been sent from Servoy can be saved to the “Sent” folder on the Imap server, so they also appear in the user’s standard email client in the sent folder.
The possibility to receive messages in the background instead of waiting until everything is downloaded makes it more pleasant for a user to actually store emails in a database system. The same is the case for message notifications. You don’t have to start a trigger to check for new mails, but the plugin will call one of your methods in seconds when there is new mail.
More information and a demo version can be found here: www.servoy-plugins.de/mailpro.html
A big thanks goes to Harjo Kompagnie for doing a lot of testing.