How to send a mail without smpt ?

[Heinz Z.]

Hello,

I need a function to send a mail from a winform application. I don't belive,
that I can use smtp, because I neither know the mail address of the sender
nor the smtp server (or can it be "localhost" ?). I only want to set the
receiver mail address (it's me), the subject and the body text. And I want
to send the mail with the default mail client of the user.
How can I do that ?

With regards
Heinz

 

[Mike Kitchen]

This is the easy way :

using System.Diagnostics;

string toEmail = "(e-mail address removed)";
string subject = "Love the Program";
string body = "Thanks a lot";
string message = string.Format( "mailto:{0}?subject={1}&body={2}", toEmail,
subject, body );

Process.Start( message );

Add this to a linklabel and bobs your uncle.

Example app can be found at
http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/snip/snip007.html


Hope this helps

Publicjoe
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[Heinz Z.]

Yes, that solves my problem.
Thank you, Heinz

This is the easy way :

using System.Diagnostics;

string toEmail = "(e-mail address removed)";
string subject = "Love the Program";
string body = "Thanks a lot";
string message = string.Format( "mailto:{0}?subject={1}&body={2}", toEmail,
subject, body );

Process.Start( message );

Add this to a linklabel and bobs your uncle.

Example app can be found at
http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/snip/snip007.html


Hope this helps

Publicjoe
C# Tutorial at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/tut.html
C# Snippets at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/snip/snippets.html
C# Ebook at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/csharp/samples/ebook.html
VB Ebook at http://www.publicjoe.f9.co.uk/vbnet/samples/ebook.html