emailing from filepro (texting)

Wed Sep 25 14:08:49 PDT 2019

I 
didn't see a comment regarding how many text messages per hour or per day or per ? How many characters?

A google search returned Textbelt.com to use to send a text message from Windows 10 command line. I sent (a test) to myself: 'Hello' and it came through. Only one free message per day. I read texting to over a hundred countries is supported. I used within an administrator command prompt: C:\>:
curl -X POST https://textbelt.com/text --data-urlencode phone='19545626727' --data-urlencode message='Hello 
world' -d key=textbelt
My machine was a windows 7 updated to windows 10. I read, somewhere, the 'curl' command is not included in a 'new' install of windows 10. I found curl.exe in my c:\windows\system32 folder.
textbelt.com is a subscription service. I think easy enough to create a batch file from filePro and run the command. I remember having done similar command line tasks in the past. You can test at a windows 10 command prompt for curl, error if not existing, and if exists get help using C:\>curl --help for the list of tags to use. The textbelt.com site gives many examples, and pricing too.
I found a another possible solution and public API. I queried the company, response copied here:
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Hi Reggie,
We can not allow the clients to send messages at the level you requested, however, we have APIs and web service you can use in order to integrate the SMS service. 
First, you need to create an account in our platform and then you can use the credentials it provides you to use the APIs. Here you have the full documentation. 
https://apidoc.go4clients.com/?version=latest
Let us know if further assistance is needed.
Sincerely,

Enterprise Support Service II
Support Team
W COL (57) 1 5086000 Ext 250
W USA (1) 786 8716500 Ext 250
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If above not helpful, then simply interesting.
Reggie
Deltona Florida

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From: JohnMac via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Reply-To: <john at mcngroup.net>
To: <laura at hvcomputer.com>
Cc: 'Filepro_List' <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: 9/25/2019 7:26:46 AM
Subject: RE: emailing from filepro
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This will be for a customer running 5.7.03, I have that version as well and 6.0 and can upgrade them if necessary.

I am running windows 10 and the customer is running windows server

This is for a customer I have had  for 22 years. It needs to be dependable 

The email process should be able to handle both. From outlook I have been sending SMS

It is my intention to populate the email from the data in filepro automatically based on a schedule or during input processing from @key or @WLF

My customer is running fileprogi so I can use either character base or gui

The mail.ini is running and they can open email from input processing.  However it only populate from and to. Need to know how to automatically populate the email subject and body 

I want the process to complete everything for the email

From, To, Subject, Body and if needed for the automatic process, send email

I have played with smpt from powershell command line and understand the gui has

Cause client to send an email message (25):

(From^To^cc^bcc^subject^attachmentFileName^bodyFileName)

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_ If: _

Then: line="bill at fptech.com^support at fptech.com^^^Subject Line^c <mailto:bill at fptech.com%5esupport at fptech.com%5e%5e%5eSubject%20Line%5ec:\%20> :\ "{"NewGIfp\ "{"test_file.txt^"

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_ If: _

Then: line=line{"c:\ "{"NewGIfp\ "{"test_file.txt" _

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_ If: _

Then: status=@GUI.SENDMESG( <mailto:status=@GUI.SENDMESG(%2225%22,line)> "25",line) 

But I have not gotten this to work properly and support has not be helpful.

What do you have available?

From: Laura Brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 4:05 PM
To: john at mcngroup.net
Cc: Filepro_List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: emailing from filepro

This is a question that is best answered after the following questions are answered by you:

What version of filePro are you running?

What operating system(s)?

Do you want something cheap, quick and dirty or is this needed for a business that can & will pay for dependability?

Is your ideal solution text messages or do you want email?

Laura Brody

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:56 AM JohnMac via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> > wrote:

Looking for assistance in creating and sending automated email from filepro

Overall purpose is to send text messages by email to notify clients of
scheduled maintenance

Or is there an alternate solution to sending text messages from filepro?

Have tried creating and sending email from powershell but did not get that
to work.

John McNaughton

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