email
hi all...
i'm trying to send silent emails from the client, after a customer has installed my setup.exe...
this email should only be an information for myself...
how can do this with nsis...
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email
hi all...
i'm trying to send silent emails from the client, after a customer has installed my setup.exe...
this email should only be an information for myself...
how can do this with nsis...
you can't just with nsis, but you could include any of many command line e-mailers and do a silent execution of that. I've used "blat" myself in an IRC bot before I learned sockets - but there's many.
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well, but I think it won't work like that.
I had visited the URL's...
very confusing...
email sending should be hidden for the customer, that he doesn't know it...
isn't there an easier way to go???
maybe .vbs or something else???
thx
blat is a command line application. You can run it with the nsExec plug-in to hide the console window, if it even shows one. You can't get much more silent than that.
On a side note, you should be aware that doing something like that in your application or your installer will be considered by most as a violation of their privacy. "Calling home" by sending e-mails or visiting websites, even if not for collecting information (which is usually not the case), without the user's knowledge would get average Joe pissed. Furthermore, most modern anti-virus software will warn the user of this activity in some way, especially if done from VBScript.
indeed... I was presuming this was under a custom page that allows the user to send feedback / some manner of registration info (if you don't have a web server), etc.
The installer I'm working on, for example, has an option to check up-to-dateness online, but even that is behind a button that the user is free to press or not.
Your software -will- quickly be labeled spyware if you don't make that e-mail optional, or at least clearly state that an e-mail would be sent.