net.mail question

[Bob]

In 2003 you could use system.web.mail to send e-mails as long as IIS server
was installed on the computer, you would be able to send e-mail fairly
easily. Since this has been made obsolete and MS is recommending we use
system.net.mail instead, do we still need to have IIS installed on the
computer to get the SMTP server service running and use that.

Asking the question cause the people I'm doing the prog for don't have an in
house exchange server. Their POP3 server is hosted outside and we don't want
to get and manage another e-mail account at the hosting company. Being able
to send e-mails via SMTP on the localhost was easy.

I just started looking at System.net.mail cause my 2003 app conversion gives
me warnings when I look at the code. Question is can I still use the
localhost as a server, same as before or do I need to do something else?

Thanks for any advice

Bob

 

[Melissa Nava]

When converting to .NET 2.0, it gives you warnings about the
system.web.mail, you do not *have* to use system.net.mail... yet.

You can still use the system.web.mail as you did prior, it will work
without you having to make changes.

 

[Guest]

I'm interested in Bob's part of the question;

"Since this has been made obsolete and MS is recommending we use
system.net.mail instead, do we still need to have IIS installed on the
computer to get the SMTP server service running and use that."

Do you know if the System.net.mail needs IIs installed to run or can it use
the outside pop3?