Using the Internet Toolkit

[ELMHURST]

I am able to successfully send an e-mail using the Internet Toolkit; however, the "message" is always empty (the text string wired to message in my VI does not appear in the e-mail). I have tried different types of Email VIs and I always have the same problem. I am running Windows and I have charset=us-ascii. What am I missing?

[mikeporter]

As I recall this was an old bug that I patched in my code some time ago. Unfortunately I don't remember what the exact problem was. Send me your email address and I'll send you a VI that I know works.

Also, are you needing to include attachments?

Mike...

[ELMHURST]

Thanks for the info. Yes, I am including attachments. My e-mail address is kelmhurst@watsonhenry.com.

[Randy_H]

ELMHURST,

Do the shipping examples in \examples\internet\ftp_smtp.llb work to sent an e-mail message? This is where I would start. If these examples work fine, then it is something in the code. If they do not work, then I woulg go back through the Internet Toolkit manual and make sure that everything is configured properly.

Another possibility is that the toolkit does not put a blank line between the header and the message body (tat is fixed a future version of the toolkit). Try adding another \r\n at the end of the format string in SMTP Send Message Header.vi and see if that fixes things.

Randy Hoskin
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
http://www.ni.com/ask