Re: Why sending email programmatically must be so complicated?
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?
I realise that this thread has been done to death already, but I thought I
might bring up a point that I am suprised that noone else has.
To answer your last question, yes, it /should/ be complicated. I don't want
any application sending email, or indeed any form of communication across
the internet, without my knowledge and approval. You want to send an email,
you make sure that it is brought to my attention as to what you are doing,
and you let me see the contents of the email prior to it being sent, and you
allow me to cancel the send if I so wish.
If I found any application on my machine that sent email without my
knowledge, then it would be removed. There is a good reason why Outlook
warns about the email sending, and it was brought to light in a big way with
the "ILoveYou" virus...
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Regards,
Michael Cole
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