I'll second Bob's suggestion - generating and mailing a PDF or making it available for the customer to download/view it on your website is probably the best solution. We do that for many documents, and it works super well for us. If you don't know how to generate PDFs using Openserver's pcl2pdf and mail them using sendmail, you'd definitely be best off using a Windows box and Bob's software.<br>
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Tyler Style<br>
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:55:23 -0700 (PDT)<br>
From: Bob Rasmussen <<a href="mailto:ras@anzio.com">ras@anzio.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: email<br>
To: ROBERT PULLIAM <<a href="mailto:pulliamr@earthlink.net">pulliamr@earthlink.net</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, ROBERT PULLIAM wrote:<br>
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> Using sco unix. Filepro.<br>
> Is there a way to send email? My business statements are<br>
> getting to be so many and postal rates keep going up that I would
like to send statements by email. A field in the filepro database
contains the email address.<br>
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There's probably more to it than that. What kind of email do you want to<br>
send them? Plain text, which they have just as much trouble printing as<br>
you do, that looks like 1965 correspondence? PCL, when you don't know if<br>
they have a PCL printer?<br>
<br>
A better option is to send them a well-formatted PDF. It can be viewed on<br>
any system, printed on any printer, and it can look nice, with boxes,<br>
logo, font changes, etc.<br>
<br>
As has been mentioned, our software will allow you to pass the job to a<br>
Windows box, create a PDF from it, and email it, interactively,<br>
semi-interactively, or totally batch.<br>
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Regards,<br>
....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc.