[RESOLVED] Email?

[torro]

Hello,

I am currently in a team of students at school who are building a website for a fitness/training business with asp.net. A small part of the system must send out weekly emails to members, and must be able to handle sending out quite a lot, if there gets to be many members.

How shall we go about this? I have the ability to send emails, but when it used a Gmail account, I started getting back ""Technical details of permanent failure:Message rejected." emails that I've read probably have to do with limiting the number of sent emails (this was after about only 15 emails). I've never ventured beyond Gmail, so I don't know what else is out there to use for sending email out like this.

For the time being, the email address could be anything. Because when this is handed in and this semester ends, we lose the responsibility over it. Given that we have just under 4 weeks to have the entire system complete, what is a simple option for sending emails quickly and easily, even now just for testing purposes?

Thanks so much

[Pradeep1210]

The System.Net.Mail class has all you need to send emails. Just look up the msdn for this class documentation.

[torro]

The System.Net.Mail class has all you need to send emails. Just look up the msdn for this class documentation.

Thanks, yeah that's what I'm using to send the email, but I need an email service that doesn't limit non-human-sent emails (I guess Gmail does, because after 15, it begin refusing to send and I'd receive the error above). Is there a free email service that is good for sending out emails with the System.Net.Mail class in bulk?

Thanks,
Tor

[techgnome]

If you are building this for a company, then what you need to be doing is testing against their SMTP servers... In the end that's what it's going to be using anyways. Or that's what it should be using.

-tg

[NeedSomeAnswers]

yes i agree, you should ask your school / college if they have an SMTP Server setup, and test against that if you can.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Of course, there are ways around the limit....sort of. The limit is probably based on some metric such as messages/minute or some such. You have determined the quantity, but not the time frame. If the quantity is 15 every X, then you can send 10 every X. The next thing to determine is the X, which can be done empirically, or possibly through research.

After all, nobody really cares if their spam comes in a few minutes late.

[torro]

Thanks - I think my team lead is knowledgeable about setting this up, so I will talk to him.

Thanks!