Synapse plugin

rbuser

I have some clients that use hosted GMail (Google Apps) as the mail
server. My program generates a report that is emailed to a BCC list. I
have gone through the rbWiki entry 'How To...Customize Indy Email
Settings' and think that I can adapt that example for use with Synapse
rather than Indy.

But, in looking through ppSMTPSynapse.pas I noticed that BCC handling
was commented out:
//FMessage.Header.BCCList.Assign(aMessage.ToBlindCarbonCopy);
presumably due to some problem with it. So I'm not sure how, or whether,
to proceed with Synapse.

I'm reluctant to use Indy because it requires the OpenSSL libraries
which have different 32-bit and 64-bit implementations, with the same
names, that could become a support nightmare. I'm still early on with
Synapse, but it doesn't seem to need those libraries.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Using D7 RB11.05

Don

nicocizik

Hi Don,

I downloaded the latest version of Synapse and took a look at the
source. The reason this line is commented out is that the Synapse
message header simply does not support automatically sending blind
carbon copies. If I remember correctly I kept that line in (commented
out) hoping that some day they would add this feature.

Upon further research on their wiki site, it seems that they expect the
developer to manage the BCC list manually. I will research this further
and possibly add this to the next release of ReportBuilder.

http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php/public:howto:sendingbcc

rbuser

Thanks for the Synapse link Nico. Now I understand why that line is
commented out. However, I'm not sure that I understand what Synapse is
recommending:
"In other words? add your BCC to your SMTP delivery code only! Do
not add BCC names and e-mail addresses to any message headers!"

This seems to say that setting ppReport1.EmailSettings.BlindCarbonCopy
is bad, or at least won't work. The only other way I know to 'hide' the
recipients identities from one another is to loop through the list and
send each one a separate email. Is that the solution, or am I missing
something here?

Thanks for your help,
Don

nicocizik

Hi Don,


I believe you are correct. It is very strange that Synapse does not
natively take care of this but I assume they want you to manually loop
through every BCC recipient and individually send an email to each of them.

To update the plugin, I would add a loop below the first send command
that iterates through each aMessage.ToBlindCarbonCopy entry and
individually sends an email to each.