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hey guys well i want to be able to let the user

enter the recipient, subject and body thats it!

 

and send the email

 

 

but everything seems to require smtp or wateva

 

say i wanted to send a email to me@hotmail.com or sumfing

 

how would i do it i just want a normal form

 

with a To, Subject, message, button click send sends email to any address

 

any ideas guys

Posted

i dont quite get wat it means wen they say u need smtp

 

can u explain

 

is it really required?

is there anyway to make it independent

 

or perhaps add a smtp dll to the app and make it read off that

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Posted

SMTP server is built into windows 2000 and it is required.

Quote from Framework help files:

The mail message is delivered either through the SMTP mail service built into Microsoft Windows 2000...
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Posted

There are lots of web server products, but sending an email definitely requires more than just a simple DLL and an internet connection.

 

Now if you want to launch the default mail client, such as Outlook or Outlook Express (or whatever the user has defined to be the default mail client), then that's a bit easier. But if you want to create an email and send it, it's a bit harder.

 

The basic reason is to prevent any old person from creating 10,000 emails to spam whoever they want. By installing a server, the IP address will get put in the header along with a bunch of other information.

 

Search google for SMTP server and I'm sure you can find some cheap, maybe even free, mail server software if that's what you want. But you're out of luck trying to create a program for end-users to install that will send email automatically.

 

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