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edited August 2009 in General
Delphi 2009 and RBuilder 11.05

If I set ppReport.EmailSettings.ReportFormat := PDF and use MAPI to create
an email message, when the message is sent, the attached report is in PDF
format.

However, if I use Indy and the built in email editior included with
ReportBuilder, the email attachment is in .DAT format. Is this an error in
RBuilder or am I missing something?

TIA

John

PS This is a continuation of an earlier post 8-4-2009, email-OnSend event.

Comments

  • edited August 2009
    "John" wrote in message news:4a7ca02a$1@mail....

    This is caused by a bug in the Indy mail handling, the file is still PDF
    format but the file name comes out wrong. You can either update your Indy
    components to a later version or switch to Synapse.

    I went for Synapse instead and it works well.

    There was a previous thread related to this issue somewhere but I couldn't
    find it.

    Regards, Paul.
  • edited August 2009
    Paul

    In searching Synapse TCP/IP I find Ararat Synapse, a freeware toolkit that
    is only functional with Delphi 7 and below. I am using Delphi 9.

    Regarding Indy10 which comes with Delphi 2009, I do not find on the
    Embarcadero Delphi Developer Network an update to the Indy10 components.
    Indy.fulgan.com appears to have the most recent update which is Friday
    September 19, 2008. Unfortunately, there are several references to
    difficulty with its installation in Delphi 2009, and I do not know if the
    update would address my problem. Does anyone have additional information
    regarding this matter?

    TIA

    John

  • edited August 2009
    "John" wrote in message news:4a7cf256$1@mail....

    Apparently, Delphi 3-7, Delphi 2005-2006, C++Builder, Kylix 1-3 or
    FreePascal 2.0.4 are listed as requirements but I have tried it under D2009
    and RB 11.05 without any problems.
    I believe the code is all unicode aware so I don't know what else you might
    be thinking of regarding using it under 2009.

    http://synapse.ararat.cz/files/synapse.zip


    The later versions do address the issue of incorrect attachment file naming
    but since they are only availabe as a snapshot release of the current
    development code, I was wary of using it and breaking other existing code,
    hence I tried Synapse.

    http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/wizard/DownloadWizard.EN.aspx

    Regards, Paul.
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