Send an email from a Form?

Bog

Hi this is kind of an embarassing question- do I actually need to run an SMTP server to send an email? What I want to do is have my desktop windows app (Form) send an email when the user clicks a button. If the user installs my app, do I need to also install an SMTP sever on the user's local machine? I've read a lot about using the System.Web.Mail stuff. But I'm getting the "Could not access 'CDO.Message' object." error when I set SmtpMail.SmtpServer="localhost". I tried all the suggested fixes- I have Outlook installed, I'm using valid addresses for To and From, I tried setting SmtpMail.SmtpServer to "". Do I have to install an SMTP server on the user's machine in order to send an email? thanks "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

David Stone

Bog wrote: Do I have to install an SMTP server on the user's machine in order to send an email? No...you just need to point to the user's SMTP server at their ISP...

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Nick Seng

Here's an idea, if you have Outlook installed in the user's machine, why not just use the Outlook Com object.Add a reference to the Com, and add the following code:

Outlook.Application ol = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.MailItem ml;
ml = ol.CreateItem(olMailItem);

ml.Body = "message body";
ml.To = email address;
ml.SenderName = your email;
ml.Send();

warning: the code above is modified from vba, so it might not exactly like expected.

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Manster

This url http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Internet/MailingAppMG.asp should help you, it worked for me. ;)

Bog

Yea this is exactly what I did, and I got the error I described. But thanks for your response anyway. "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Bog

This is a new one- I haven't seen anyone mention this. If the use doesn't have outlook installed, then obviously this won't work. So I'm still probably better off installing an SMTP server on the users local machine instead. Hey, if the user has Outlook installed, but the user didn't specify an SMTP server for outlook (or specified an incorrect one), then this won't work right? Or is it like using the underlying internal SMTP server of outlook itself or something? See, like me for example- I have outlook installed but I never use it- I use Eudora, so I never told Outlook what SMTP server to use. thanks for your response, "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Bog

Well, thanks but that won't do. I have verizon, for examle, and Verizon doesn't let you send email where the From address is anything besides the email address verizon gives you. If you want to send email From any other address you have to use a different SMTP server. Also where could I find out what the user's ISP's SMTP server is? Like if they don't have Outlook installed, or it's not set up (wrong or missing SMTP for example). thanks anyway for your response. "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx