Email with spinnernet spinserver

Michael Gindhart

Hello! I am fairly new to the spin world, however I have had a propeller since they came out years ago just never got the hang of Spin.
That aside I am taking on a project wherein I need to be able to send a report through a Gmail or other web service via POP3 or IMAP.
Has anyone done this? the spinnernet server has little documentation with it. Nore it seems much discussion about it, or objects in the exchange...
I know the old PINK had email built in or something to that effect, but it is no longer available and I am trying to stick to the current device.
Any ideas or such on where to even start??

Thanks much for your time and have a great day!



PS. Is Prop C the replacement for spin or just a new name or what?

rosco_pc

Michael Gindhart wrote: »

Hello! I am fairly new to the spin world, however I have had a propeller since they came out years ago just never got the hang of Spin.
That aside I am taking on a project wherein I need to be able to send a report through a Gmail or other web service via POP3 or IMAP.
Has anyone done this? the spinnernet server has little documentation with it. Nore it seems much discussion about it, or objects in the exchange...

POP3/IMAP is used for reading email. Sending email is done with SMTP, simple example in this link (just replace the telnet session with opening the socket and sending the messages): http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html

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Here an example for spin (you need to adjust this): http://code.google.com/p/propeller-w5200-driver/source/browse/trunk/+propeller-w5200-driver/?r=19
However most webmail services today require SSL to connect to their SMTP server, not sure if the spinneret allows that.

Beau Schwabe

You could take a look at this link also ....
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/134586-DEMO-SMTP-quot-SpinMail-quot

...It's been awhile since I had my head around it, but it should have enough to get you started. I never did get MD5 in place that would allow TLS authentication but with some email providers that isn't a problem.

Michael Gindhart

Thank you both Rosco and Beau for your ideas suggestions and corrections!
This should get me on the right track.
-Thank You

Michael Gindhart

with a little looking in to that I can also use gmail without SSL sending to the same address I sent from from (ie.spinserver@gmail.com to spinserver@gmail.com) with auto forwarding to another address.
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176600

Because I only need to ever send reports to one address this works great!

Beau Schwabe

Michael Gindhart,

Your welcome! ... and welcome to the Forums! If you have any kinds of questions, there are several knowledgeable friendly people in this forum that can help.

Again, welcome to the Parallax forum