Email without SMTP Server

S

Sehboo

Hello,

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Thanks
 
C

CJ Taylor

No.

You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses SMTP
as its sending gateway.
 
S

Sjaakie Helderhorst

You need SMTP to send mail around. You could write your own (stripped down)
SMTP-server.
BTW: You're not writing a new mass mailer I hope...
 
H

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

* (e-mail address removed) (Sehboo) scripsit:
Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Why not use a "remote" SMTP server?
 
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dave wanta

That's not quite true.

You do not "need" a mail server to do this. Well, you need the
recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. All you need to
do is perform a MX record lookup, for the remote mail server's domain,
and then, using the SMTP protocol, deliever the the mail directly to
the recipient's inbox.

That's exactly what http://www.aspNetEmail.com does with it's
DirectSend() method.

http://www.aspnetemail.com/help/aspnetemail.directsend.html

Cheers!
Dave
 
C

CJ Taylor

That's not quite true.
You do not "need" a mail server to do this. Well, you need the
recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. All you need to
do is perform a MX record lookup, for the remote mail server's domain,
and then, using the SMTP protocol, deliever the the mail directly to
the recipient's inbox.

So... Your using a server? That uses the SMTP protocol? To send mail?

And where was my statement "not true"
 
D

dave wanta

There's no relay server involved.

"you need the recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. "

Cheers!
Dave
 
C

CJ Taylor

dave wanta said:
There's no relay server involved.

"you need the recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. "

" You do not "need" a mail server to do this."

So... Because you say "receiving" instead of SMTP that makes you more
correct? I don't get it...

Cheers!
Dave



So... Your using a server? That uses the SMTP protocol? To send mail?

And where was my statement "not true"


uses
SMTP
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C

CJ Taylor

Where did I say "relay server"

Relay or not.. it still requires a server... so yes you "need" a server.


dave wanta said:
There's no relay server involved.

"you need the recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. "

Cheers!
Dave



So... Your using a server? That uses the SMTP protocol? To send mail?

And where was my statement "not true"


uses
SMTP
[/QUOTE]
 

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