Re: Why sending email programmatically must be so complicated?

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Corporate users are tied to MS applications and I am targeting corporate
users.
Jack

"Duke" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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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