The Halcyon Software Email System has been created using Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) components for NTS. CDO components make it much easier for you to send and receive mail items to and from your own applications. You can create programmable messaging objects and then use their properties and methods to meet your own requirements.

With Halcyon Email, you can exchange email messages with anyone on the Internet. The Internet Connection Wizard helps you connect to one or more mail/news servers. Before using Halcyon Email, make sure you have an email account provided by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or your own network administrator.

Current Limitations of this version

• Only one message may be sent at a time. You need to exit and restart the mail system to send another message.
  
• Once you have sent mail, you need to restart the mail system to receive mail.

NOTE: All of the above limitations will be addressed shortly.

Getting Started with Halcyon Email

To run this sample, add mail.jar, activation.jar and pop3.jar to the jrun runtime classpath, and then open the email.html page. Follow the steps below to run the email system:

1. Specify your email address in the Email Address text box.
   
2. Specify your password in the Password text box.
   
3. Click the OK button to go in or the Reset button to clear the fields and start over again.

Two buttons are displayed: Send New Mail and Get and View Mail. If there is no new mail on the server, Get and View Mail is replaced by the No new message! text.

Sending an Email Message

1. In the To, Cc, and Bcc edit boxes, type the email addresses that you want to send to. In the Subject edit box, type a message title. If more than one email address are supposed to be put in one of the three edit boxes, separate these addresses with either a comma or a semicolon.
   
2. To attach a file, enter the path and file name in the Attach edit box, or click the Browse button to choose file you want to attach.
   
3. In the BodyFormat drop-down list select 0 if the message is in plain text format or 1 if the message is in HTML format.
   
4. In the Priority edit box, select 0 if the message is of low priority, 1 if the message is of normal priority, or 2 if the message is of high priority.
   
5. In the From edit box, type your own email address.
   
6. Compose your message in the body edit box, and click the Send button to send the message or the Reset button to clear all fields and start over again.

    NOTE: Before you send an Email , please make sure the Outgoing SMTP mail server ,  User name and Password has been filled in the
              [iASP_Home]/properties/cdonts.properties file.