Sending an email from within my application

[Guest]

Hi,

I want my application to be able to send an email.

The PC that the application may run on, may not have outlook installed or
even have an SMTP service running within its network.

Is there a way from within VB.net 2008 to send an email in this scenario, or
would I need to get a SMTP component and include it within my application ?

Thanks

 

[Tom Shelton]

Hi,

I want my application to be able to send an email.

The PC that the application may run on, may not have outlook installed or
even have an SMTP service running within its network.

Is there a way from within VB.net 2008 to send an email in this scenario, or
would I need to get a SMTP component and include it within my application ?

Thanks

You can use System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient to send email - but, your going to have
to have a server that you can connect to... It doesn't have to be local, but
it does have to be reachable. And, you have to be able to support it's
authentication protocols.

 

[sloan]

You can find some sample SMTP code here:
http://sholliday.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A68482B9628A842A!138.entry

Code is downloadable.
...........

You'll either need to find a smtp server.....or create a webservice or wcf
service to encapsulate some smtp service.

At the end of the day, you're gonna have to find (at least one) computer
that can get some smtp service going.