If the port is 465, use the “smtps” URL protocol if it’s 587 or another port, use “smtp”.

Your email provider will likely have its SMTP server and port information documented online. The URL is the SMTP server address, preceded with the “smtps” or “smtp” URL protocol, and followed by the port number. There are a few additional options in the Insert from URL script step which we’ll also review. To send mail using the Insert from URL script step, there are three major components you need to assemble: the URL, the cURL options string, and the message content in raw MIME format. Note that sending email with SMTP and cURL works across the entire FileMaker 18 platform, including FileMaker Pro Advanced, FileMaker Go, WebDirect, and server-side scripts. Finally, we’ll look at how this new feature compares to some alternatives for sending mail from your FileMaker app. We’ve also built a robust demo file you can download for free and use to dig into this functionality in more detail, and we’ll discuss some of its capabilities here. In this article we’ll review how sending mail using SMTP and cURL in FileMaker 18 works and go through several examples. Using cURL to send emails with attachments provides additional capabilities that makes FileMaker HTML emails more robust. Sending HTML email has been a long-requested feature for the FileMaker platform and was previously only available through plug-ins or, more recently, external API calls.

This means that sending email is now possible using Insert from URL, including the ability to send HTML email! Insert from URL now supports the smtp and smtps URL protocols, as well as a few related cURL options.

A major new feature in FileMaker 18 that has flown somewhat under the radar is the expanded capability of the Insert from URL script step.

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