SMTPit Pro

Next Generation Email plug-in


Configure the plug-in

Now the plug-in is installed, you can set the default preferences in the plug-in Configuration Dialog.

*Note*, the default preferences in the Configuration Dialog are only used if you do not set a preference in your scripts using the plug-in's functions. In other words, any preference you set in your scripts using the plug-in functions will be used *instead* of these values.

On Mac OSX, go to the "FileMaker Pro" menu, and then select "Preferences". This will bring up FileMaker Pro's "Preferences" dialog.

Navigating to the Plug-ins tab in the FileMaker Preferences

Next, click on the "Plug-ins" tab, which should give you a dialog as shown. Now, select the plug-in name and click the "Configure" button or double-click the plug-in name which will open the plug-in's Configuration Dialog.
FileMaker Plug-ins tab

Now you are in the plug-in Configuration Dialog where you can specify the default settings of the plug-in. As mentioned before, these settings are only used if you do not set them in your database scripts using the plug-in's functions. Note, not all of our plug-ins have settings that need to be configured.
SMTPit Pro Configuration Dialog

A couple more commonly used settings in the Configuration Dialog are the "Backward Compatibility" and the "Email Character Set" values. Both of these settings are found on the "Advanced" tab.

Backward Compatibility

If you previously used our Classic SMTPit plug-in, your scripts probably use the old style functions. The old style functions all begin with the word "External", so they are easy to spot. In order to make migrating from the old functions to the new functions easier, this setting gives SMTPit Pro the ability to use the functions of the Classic SMTPit plug-in. Please see this FAQ article for more information.

Email Character Set

By default, the plug-in uses the ISO-8859-1 character set when sending email (even though the field is blank it is set to ISO-8859-1). If you need to send email that contains accented characters (e.g. an email written in Japanese ), change this setting to the character set needed. Note, many times setting this to UTF-8 will work for most languages.

Advanced Tab

After configuring the plug-in, you can continue to Registering the plug-in if you purchased a license or skip to Testing the plug-in.