[2005]Guidance for Emailing

Hi people,

I am currently working on massmailing system... in which i can mail to all the ids that r stored in a database...

Now i dont have Outlook configured, so i cannt use outlook as my SMTP server.

So anyone can please guide me how can i build or setup a SMTP server ofmy own so that i can send mail using those. And what r the steps that r needed for those...

Also as an added information, i am using cable net from my local provider, so i am not sure whether he has a SMTP server of hos own...

Please help me.....

Thankx in Advance...

Do you have an e-mail account with your cable provider? If so then you have access to their SMTP server via that account and their Web site will have the server name. Look up the System.Net.Mail namespace for the classes used to send e-mail, including code examples.

No i dont have a email account with my internet provider.....
Now what shld I do....

I made a VB.net project on that i will try to give u the code if I find it i actually formatted my drive

massmailing? or did you mean spaming?

Not spamming..... I dont intend to harm any body.... I need a guidance thru which i can send mail to the contacts that i Have in my table... I am using VS 2005 and have tried to configure a virtual SMTP server using IIS on my local machine....

Can any body guide me what shld i do next????

As jmc mentioned, the way to do this in .NET is to use the System.Net.Mail namespace, BUT.... you need access to an SMTP server in order for it to work.

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