Longhorn API sucks goats

[Guest]

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail has no AUTHENTICATION properties.

How the hell can i automate sending an email from C#, no no I cant, we dont
have OPEN RELAYS.

Again its the same old, drop down to external methods.. PInvoke, or soome
external scripts.. blah blah..

 

[Guest]

Theyre too busy coding the MSAvalon decorations rather than filling in the
base.

tards...

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail has no AUTHENTICATION properties.

How the hell can i automate sending an email from C#, no no I cant, we dont
have OPEN RELAYS.

Again its the same old, drop down to external methods.. PInvoke, or soome
external scripts.. blah blah..

You can make socket connections if you want to, or use TcpClient - SMTP
isn't that difficult to use directly.

 

[Guest]

That defeats the purpose of the SmtpMail object dont it.

Why bother with that half azzed peice of tripe when we can just do the pure
socket stuff and implemenet our protocol ourself, well why bothere indeed
with any class, we can all use PInvoke!!

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

That defeats the purpose of the SmtpMail object dont it.

If you're trying to use SmtpMail for something it's not intended for
(authenticated SMTP) then yes. For many people, unauthenticated SMTP is
fine, because their mail servers are configured such that they'll
accept SMTP from trusted IP addresses (eg the office LAN) anyway. It's
not a useless class, although I agree it could be more useful.

Why bother with that half azzed peice of tripe when we can just do the pure
socket stuff and implemenet our protocol ourself, well why bothere indeed
with any class, we can all use PInvoke!!

You were implying it couldn't be done without using P/Invoke. I wanted
to get the record straight on that.

 

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

Before we bring the farm animals into it,
It's pretty safe to say the longhorn API isn't done yet.

-Dino

 

[Guest]

Its pretty safe to say the current API isnt done yet either ...

Not by a long shot.


Still, we need these out asap (the non LH stuff)

Before we bring the farm animals into it,
It's pretty safe to say the longhorn API isn't done yet.

-Dino

 

[Guest]

Is there a plan to include authentication into SmtpMail?

There is no documentation on what is to be added for cases like these
anywhere I can see. Would be nice to know what is going to be added.

Before we bring the farm animals into it,
It's pretty safe to say the longhorn API isn't done yet.

-Dino

 

[Guest]

How often are people dropiong to PInvoke, overriding WndProc to process
native messages, using CraptiveX when they could be using classes for
these..

What percentage of time is a developer actually wrapping lacking features, I
bet its quite a lot.

Is there a plan to include authentication into SmtpMail?

There is no documentation on what is to be added for cases like these
anywhere I can see. Would be nice to know what is going to be added.

 

[Johnny B]

I too am getting very frustrated with SmtpMail and its
lack of features in keeping with the market
(authenication, etc.). I really didn't want to write a
sockets connection but am being forced into it. Wasn't
this supposed to be fixed?

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I too am getting very frustrated with SmtpMail and its
lack of features in keeping with the market
(authenication, etc.). I really didn't want to write a
sockets connection but am being forced into it. Wasn't
this supposed to be fixed?

I hadn't heard about it being "fixed". I'd be surprised if there
weren't various 3rd party libraries available by now though.

 

[Ed Kaim [MSFT]]

WinFX APIs in the Longhorn Developer Preview are very early and subject to
change.