app user sending me an email

[T120]

My app needs the user to send me an email.

How can they do this if they only use web mail and therefore haven't specified a default mail service?

[Hack]

SMTP perhaps...

[T120]

But would someone with a GMAIL account for instance know enough detail to be able to supply the info required for the smtp client address/port etc?

[Grimfort]

They are going to have to enter their own details.

The only alternative I can think of is to setup your own email account that you put the details into the application, so it sends you an email from your own account. If the account details needed to be changed, then so would your app. You could work around this by supplying a secure config file that your app reads for login details, and redistrubute that file if needed.

[T120]

I tried sending to my own email account but the server blocks it :-

http://www.spamhaus.org

I thought this was going to be simple along with detecting the user email client but .......