Re: Why sending email programmatically must be so complicated?

You are terribly wrong in the assumption that everyone is using MS email products. I used MS products until I got sick and tired of the constant barrage of Spam, viruses etc that was targeted at the weakness in MS email clients. I switched to Fire fox browser and Thunder bird email client and will probably never go back to MS. What is comforting is that I have suggested to many of people I have contact with to try Fire fox & Thunder bird and many who have tried these products have switched as well.

The choice is yours to make, do you want your application to be exclusively dependent to Microsoft, or would it be better to have a more universal products with fewer strings attached ?

I have tried several of the free SMTP controls that DanS suggested and have found they were as easy to implement as falling off a log.

Good Luck

Duke


Jack wrote:
I read few threads regarding sending email and found them lacking common sense.
All of them involve direct connection to Internet and extra other components.

I think is is safe to assume that user has one of following installed:
Outlook Express or Outlook and the computer is already connected to Internet.
Based on that assumption, is it possible to use functionality of one of these two programs to send email programmatically?
I do not want to use any extra components, and specially Winsock because such components tend Windows to warn potential user about hazards such program can bring to his computer and I want to avoid that.
I need very simple thing.
When my program reaches the alert state I want to sent simple email: no attachments, no body message only subject line filled in.
It should use a default email server and no other questions ask.
Is it possible to do it very simply or it has to be so complicated?
Your thoughts please,
Jack 


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