Peter

If Sept 20 was the deadline then I suspect (strongly) that it was - they have a very accurate marketing division.  You could get a plugin like SMTPit from CNS (http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/Plug-ins/SMTPit_Pro)  and use that if the only reason to upgrade is the SMTP eMail in 11.  The SMTP in 11 has some significant issues - problems with passing the "name".  And when it fails you get no error other than "eMail could not be sent successfully" - which is very lame.  I'd go the plugin - CNS is great, also the Dacons one (http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/mailit4/).  Both plugins get great reports on FMExperts and FMI TechTalk.

Stephen

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"Local brain outage causes havoc in the Tri-Lobes Region.  Film at 11" --- anon

On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Peter Payne wrote:

> Hello all, thanks for this great resource for discussing Filemaker
> 
> I am currently using Filemaker 8.5 clients and Filemaker 9 Advanced for myself, and am considering upgrading to 11. I have a few questions if anyone can help me out.
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> First, the main reason I want to upgrade is for the ability to send email via SMPT. My goal is to send attractive HTML formatted emails according to a template that will look really nice, since this is really hard to do for some reason. Is there a way to do this with Filemaker? If there's no way to format the mail the way I want it I might just skip upgrading. Any info on this new feature would be appreciated.
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> (The current way we send pretty emails is, building them as a custom HTML document in Safari then using the "mail contents of page" we send it out through Mail.app. Not the most efficient way to go, and it totalyl breaks with the Windows machines we send some mails from. Is there a better way to send custom formatted emails, preferably through a normal mail program? Any guidance here would be great)
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> Also, I am coming from Filemaker 8.5 in some cases and would like to buy the upgrade rather than buying new. Does anyone know if the upgrade activations do work even though September 2010 has passed?