sending email from my .net app 1

[benlogan1981]

I have a requirement to include some basic email functionality into a windows desktop application - simple enough! The problem is that I can't use the standard SMTP stuff in .NET as we need the application to work accross multiple users desktops without seperate configuration. So I have no SMTP host. My guess is that I need to either bundle an email server with my app somehow, but that sounds like a lot of work. Or alternatively I could use a third party tool to perform direct sends, thereby avoiding SMTP all together. Can someone help me out on this one; I am a bit stuck as to the best way to proceed - I am sure that this must crop up quite often, but I cant seem to find many developer accounts of this problem on the web.

Any help would be much appreciated. I am currently testing the directsend feature in devMail.net ...

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[chiph]

Without an email server that understands SMTP (and they all pretty much do) I think you'll be out of luck.

If you code up your own socket-based methods to send email, you still need an entry-point into the email system, and an email server with it's SMTP protocol provides that. No one is running a public SMTP or email server these days because of the spam problem, so you'll need to rely on a customer-provided email server (whether it's Exchange, Notes, or SendMail). So you'll need a place in your app to configure a SMTP host name.

Chip H.


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[BrianB]

Another option would be to submit the email contents to a web service that has access to smtp, and let the web service actually send the emails, but that is pretty weird.

How does needing a single config rule out using smtp?

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