The Standalone E-mail Robot is a free-standing tool which runs in the background delivering messages. You don't have to use the Standalone E-mail Robot: you can send messages using the E-mail Robot (SMTP) or E-mail Robot (MAPI), and you can send SMS/text messages using the SMS/text message robot. Using the Standalone E-mail Robot means that all of your messages get sent out right away, and you don't need to worry about running any of the robots to send them manually.
Requirements
To send e-mails, the Standalone E-mail Robot requires either an SMTP server that it can use for relaying outbound messages, or you can enable the internal SMTP relay function and permit the Standalone E-mail Robot to make outbound connections through your firewall to deliver the messages itself.
To send SMS messages, track their statuses and download incoming messages, the Standalone E-mail Robot must be allowed to make outbound TCP connections using SSL over port 443 to https://api.twilio.com. For SMS messaging you also must have your own account set up with Twilio.
Note: the Standalone E-mail Robot does not and cannot use MAPI for mail delivery. It only uses SMTP.
Configuration
Configure the Standalone E-mail Robot with the same tools you use for configuring the E-mail Robot (SMTP) and the SMS Robot.
Place the Standalone E-mail Robot in the same folder as VSys.exe and VSys.ini, or at least have a configured copy of VSys.ini in the folder with VSysOneEmailRobot.exe. The Standalone E-mail Robot gets its database configuration settings from the VSys.ini file.
If the Standalone E-mail Robot is shut down, it cannot be restarted from the Standalone E-mail Robot Monitor tool, it must be launched on the machine that it normally runs from.
You can run multiple copies of the Standalone E-mail Robot: each one locks letters/messages before sending them and so multiple robots won't work on the same letter/message at the same time.
If SMS is enabled and activated, the robot will also send any eligible pending outbound messages, and every sixty seconds it will download new incoming messages and synchronize the status of previously sent outbound messages.
