How to send email using vb?

[Shirazpasha]

I have to develop a vb appln that sends email to some people at regular intervals. It should start executing at the os startup and remain active forever. At a particular time, it should send an email to some recipients. Pls it is a bit urgent, can somebody help me? Thanks in advance,

Pasha

[vbdotnetcoder2005]

This is for VS 2003 and it looks like it has changed for VS2005. Here is some code to get you started. Look on MSDN for more class documentation. Dim email As New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage Dim EmailSrv As System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail email.To = "youremail@yourcompany.com" email.From = "youremail@yourcompany.com" email.BodyFormat = Web.Mail.MailFormat.Html email.Body = "Testing" email.Subject = "Test Email" EmailSrv.SmtpServer = "email.yourcompany.com" EmailSrv.Send(email)

[Dave Kreskowiak]

For VS2005, use the System.**Net**.Mail namespace instead. The System.Web.Mail namespace has been deprecated.

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

[Freddie Code]

Does this approach require a Mail Server running on the same machine as the application?

[Dave Kreskowiak]

No. You supply the DNS name or IP address of a valid SMTP server to the SmtpClient[^] class.

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

[Shirazpasha]

Thanks for the answer. But my development platform is vb 6.0 and not VB.Net Thanks,

Pasha

[Dave Kreskowiak]

You should have mentioned that in the original post. VB.NET is usually assumed if nothing is said about which version you're using. You can use the MAPISession[^] and MAPIMessages[^] ActiveX controls to do this. I don't have any example code on how to use them though. A simple Google for "vb6 mapisession mapimessages" reveals this[^] list of possibilities.

Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic