program which would intimate the programs authors

[vb_student]

Hello

I wanted to write a module which would send an email to the author, indicating that the program has been accessed.

This is a request from my management. they want to know how popular our program is. if it cant be done it is OK but it can my team will get another star on our shoulders

[dee-u]

Author of what?

[ghades]

it can be done!

you must read the RFC for SMTP. use a socket control . and a smtp server( you can use the sever where you have the email)

[vb_student]

i have done a bit of socket programming for windows

aren't there pre-defined functions in VB
e.g. methods of the winsock object?

[ghades]

here you have an example... hope you understad....

[vb_student]

thanks for the program dude

[MalcolmCarmen]

I generally prefer to do something like the following:

set up a free (I think it's "student") account at brinkster.com and set up a basic asp page to write page visits made from a certain ASP page (you'll write the asp code) to a txt file. You can e-mail [email protected] for my own code example (I'm at school - can't get it to copy/paste).

This way, you setup an INET control and just get the html page, this works great for update notices. ie: your app gets ....brinkster.com/bleh/v.asp?myver=1 and the ASP script "knows" that the latest version is 2, so it writes a certain bit of data to the page that your app will display in a messagebox.

Just slightly nicer to have than SMTP

[vb_student]

hey i tried to open the project and i got the following message

UNable to set the version compatiable component: d:\mailing program\winsock mail\Mailer.dll

[ghades]

open the *.vbg not *.vbp