RomMailer Toolkits Overview

The RomMailer range of toolkits enables the embedded device developer to leverage standard internet email infrastructure to transfer data to and from external servers. Available in Basic through Advanced editions, RomMailer supports SMTP transfers of text or MIME encoded data through a simple, yet powerful API and integrates well with the RomPager products to support embedded graphics transfer. These features enable devices to issue mail based status updates, alerts and routine data logs. The RomPOP range of toolkits provides equivalent support for file retrieval from standard POP3 servers, enabling configuration file updates and related device control requirements to be met through simple email transfer.

RomMailer Product Family

RomMailer sends pure text messages, messages with attachments, HTML messages, or HTML with embedded graphics messages (MHTML) and is compliant with all the relevant RFCs. The mail readers that come with Netscape Communicator and MS Internet Explorer 4.0 are fully capable of reading "HTML mail" as is the newest version of Eudora.

Messages may be constructed with static information and/or dynamic device data. If RomMailer is used with Allegro's industry leading RomPager embedded Web server toolkit, the insertion of dynamic device data into a message uses the same field-proven memory saving technology. In fact, the same page may be sent both as a response to a browser request and as a spontaneous status report sent via email.

There are several RomMailer toolkits:

The RomMailer Basic toolkit has the following features:

SMTP compliant
Sends text email messages to any SMTP server.
Address and Carbon Copy Address support
Simple command API
Compliant with IETF standards (RFC 821, RFC 822)

The RomMailer Standard toolkit has the following features:

SMTP compliant
Sends text email messages to any SMTP server.
Sends MIME-based mail attachments to any SMTP server
Multiple Address, Carbon Copy Address and Blind Carbon Copy Addresses support
Message queuing from memory buffer or file system
In conjunction with RomPager Web Server can send HTML mail with integrated
  graphics
Signature support
Alternate server port support
Date Header control
Experimental Header support
Powerful command API
Compliant with IETF standards (RFC 821, RFC 822, RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2110)

The RomMailer Advanced toolkit includes all of the features of RomMailer Standard with the following additional features:

SMTP extended services support
Message Delivery Notification (MDN) support
Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support
Message/Partial support
Compliant with IETF standards (RFC 821, RFC 822, RFC 1869, RFC 1870, RFC 1891,
  RFC 1892, RFC 1894, RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2110, RFC 2298)

RomPOP receives email from any standard Internet mail POP3 server. It will optionally use APOP security mode and provides the user application UIDL support to obtain message numbers for tracking purposes. RomPOP receives pure text messages and messages with attachments. For messages with binary attachments (such as graphics, audio, configuration files, etc.), RomPOP provides MIME format decoding and attachment decoding including BASE64 support. RomPOP is compliant with the relevant POP3 and MIME RFCs.

There are three RomPOP toolkits:

The RomPOP Basic toolkit has the following features:

POP3 compliant
Receives text email messages from any POP3 server
Simple command API
Compliant with IETF standards (RFC 822, RFC 1939)

The RomPOP Standard toolkit has the following features:

POP3 compliant
Receives text email messages from any POP3 server
Receives MIME-based mail attachments from any POP3 server
Receives UUENCODED mail attachments from any POP3 server
Message reception to memory buffer or file system
Individual message read/save/delete control
Bulk message handling
Message preview support
Standard and Alternate Headers support
Optional performance tuning to trade memory for speed
Powerful command API
Compliant with IETF standards (RFC 822, RFC 1939, RFC 2045, RFC 2046)

The RomPOP Advanced toolkit includes all of the features of RomPOP Standard with the following additional features:

Message Delivery Notification (MDN) support
Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support
Message/Partial support
Compliant with IETF standards (RFC 822, RFC 1939, RFC 1869, RFC 1870, RFC   1891, RFC 1892, RFC 1894, RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2298)

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