Would you use my .NET SMTP server class?

[chris128]

I get the feeling that this probably isnt the best place to post this, but the forum says "drop in here to discuss anything related to VB.NET" and this is definitely only related to VB.NET and not VB6 or anything. Anyway, if its in the wrong place then feel free to move it mods/admins

As most of you will know, an SMTP server is a server that can send and receive emails. There are questions on these forums quite often about how to use google's SMTP server or Yahoo's SMTP server for example to send an email and generally it is a bit of a pain having to rely on a free public SMTP server. This is because for one thing you dont know that it will always be there or if the details required to access it will change slightly - plus you are only supposed to use these SMTP servers to send emails from the domain that you are using the SMTP server of. So for example if you use google's server then you should only send emails from your @gmail.com address or whatever.

So I decided a while ago to try and write my own SMTP server, as a class library so that other people could use it's functionality in their own programs. As you can imagine, this is not a particularly easy task and is taking far longer than I anticipated - whilst I will probably continue to make it just for the learning experience, I am just wondering how many people would actually use something like this? I mean if lots of people tell me that they are interested in it then I'm sure I will spend a lot more time on it, but at the moment its a bit hard to find the enthusiasm when I have loads of other stuff to do and I'm only doing it for myself.

If you could just fill in the poll attached to this thread to let me know how interested you are in this that would be great

Also, just to clarify what I am actually making, you would basically be able to just add a reference to my DLL and then do something like this:

Dim SmtpServer As New SmtpSender
SmtpServer.Send("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "subject here", "body here")

and that's it, it would send the email (provided you have port 25 open outbound, but you need that to use the standard .NET SmtpClient class anyway so thats nothing special). You dont need to specify an SMTP server or anything, because this is the SMTP server.

Thanks
Chris

EDIT: See post #7 for a better description!