vuMailKit 1.1.0 available

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vuMailKit 1.1.0 is now available.

This release is focused on making email from Clarion easier to set up, easier to send, and easier to explain to your customers.

The biggest point is this:

For normal use, you do not have to write OAuth code and very little vuMailKit code.

Your customers don’t need to know server ports, protocols or any of the hard parts in most cases - so they don’t call you for support!

The vuMailKit Email Setup Wizard walks the user through setting up the email account, testing it, and saving the working profile. Once that profile exists, your Clarion application can send email using the normal vuMailKit calls.

This release also adds and documents several features designed to make common email tasks much easier:

  • Simple to use HTML email support (sending HTML email has never been easier!)
  • Token merge / mail merge style message creation
  • CSV-based batch sending examples
  • Recommended send-flow examples using a stored profile
  • Better return-code and troubleshooting guidance
  • Expanded setup wizard and OAuth documentation
  • Updated getting-started documentation for normal Clarion developer use

One of the practical uses this opens up is generating output from Clarion and embedding it directly into an email.

For example, you can generate an invoice or customer notice, include a nice HTML header and footer, merge in customer-specific values, and send the finished email without making the user deal with the underlying email setup details.

The documentation has also been reorganized so the normal path is easier to find:

  1. Run the Email Setup Wizard.
  2. Save a tested profile.
  3. Send mail from Clarion using the stored profile.
  4. Add HTML, token merge, attachments, or batch sending as needed.

Online documentation:

The goal with vuMailKit 1.1.0 is to show Clarion developers that adding modern email support does not have to mean wrestling with OAuth flows, provider-specific setup code, or a pile of low-level mail code. The wizard handles the account setup, and your Clarion code can stay focused on sending the message.

This is a free update for all vuMailKit 1.0 users.

vuMail users can upgrade (it is a drop in replacement) to vuMailKit at our website

https://www.clarionproseries.com/html/vumailkit.html

Charles