Creating an Automated Email Service for a server

[Davenz]

Hi

Not sure where to start on this one - I am working on a project that requires an automated email to be sent from a server. We are running exchange on Server 2003. I have investigated automating the microsoft outlook object model from VB.NET but have since discovered it was not designed to be used in this way.

The email project will need to run as a windows service and use a designated exchange account (SQL Mail is a possibility too) Anyone know how I should approach this in VB.NET?

 

[chiph]

Use the SMTP class. It's part of the .net framework. Note that it's a wrapper around the CDO COM library, so you'll need to install that as well.

Alternatively, there are commercial libraries which use socket connections to send email, thus not needing the CDO library. Take a look at

http://www.componentsource.com

for a listing of them (use SMTP as a keyword).

Chip H.


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