Question regarding sending mail via. IMAP

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Hello,

I'm making a component which sends e-mail via outlook using IMAP.

This requires outlook to be running, but I was wondering if there was anyway
to access this functionality without having the gui of outlook running or at
least get it in the outbox for the next time outlook starts?

Any help would be appreciated.

Norwegian guy
 
68 said:
I'm making a component which sends e-mail via outlook using IMAP.
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You can't send mail via IMAP, only receive it. Sending is done with SMTP.
This requires outlook to be running, but I was wondering if there was
anyway to access this functionality without having the gui of outlook
running or at least get it in the outbox for the next time outlook
starts?
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You can use Windows' SendTo>Mail Recipient, Word's or IE's Mail function, or
a program to call Outlook's API and compose a message, which will be placed
in Outlook's Outbox, ready for sending the next time you start Outlook, if
you have a send/receive interval defined.
 
Thanks for the response

Brian Tillman said:
You can't send mail via IMAP, only receive it. Sending is done with SMTP.
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Well, seeing as I'm already sending email via IMAP, I'm quite confident it
works :)
Only snag is that the mail-client has to be running.
You can use Windows' SendTo>Mail Recipient, Word's or IE's Mail function,
or a program to call Outlook's API and compose a message, which will be
placed in Outlook's Outbox, ready for sending the next time you start
Outlook, if you have a send/receive interval defined.
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Unfortunately, this is an option that we're trying to avoid
 
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