Sending mail

Hey,

I have an application that will be deployed to customers.
I want to be able to allow them to send me an e-mail from within the application via a submit form.

The requirement would obviously be that they are connected to the web.

How would I go about that?

I know I can use the web.mail classes to do that but that requires me to specify a SMTP server. Is there another way?
Also, the typical user will not have IIS installed etc... so their connection is all I would have to work with.
They might be able to provide me with the POP and SMTP servers as well.

Thanks,

You can specifiy any SMTP server you have access to, so if I have an account with SomeISP and my e-mail address is [email protected] then I can specify the SMTPServer as smtp.someisp.com and away it goes. The alternative is to call Process.Start and pass it a mailto URL, which will open a new message in the user's default e-mail client. The advantage of this method is that the user then has a copy of the message in their standard Sent Items folder.

There is a specific form mail example in the 101 Examples I believe.

I've tried that. smtp.someisp.com but I got an error
Could not access cdo.message.

Thanks,

You didn't really use "smtp.someisp.com" did you? That was just an example. You need to use the SMTP server address for an ISP you have an account with. Look up the details of your mail servers in your e-mail client and you should have an SMTP server in there. You can use that, but obviously your clients should use the SMTP server for their own ISP. You need to code your app so that the user can provide an SMTP server and then your app will use that value automatically. The logical place would be the config file. The following link provides a method for storing and retrieving information using the config file: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...alBasicNET.asp

hehe, no I didn't use smtp.someisp.com

I used my ISP's smtp server but still received the error message.

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Originally Posted by vbgladiator

hehe, no I didn't use smtp.someisp.com

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Phew. :) I've seen a number of people report CDO errors when trying to send mail and I've never actually seen anyone post a specific resolution. I really don't know what causes those errors.

yeah, I googled it but the info is very vague.

Thanks for your help anyways,