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From: Cor Ligthert[MVP] on 27 Apr 2010 03:59
Bwig,

Not on all OS versions

"Bwig Zomberi" <zomberiMAPSONNOSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> fniles wrote:
>> Is there any way to send an email (either from a VB program or ASP or
>> HTML)
>> if the machine has no Outlook and/or SMTP server ?
>> Thank you
>>
>>
>
> If it is your local computer, then installing IIS will provide a local
> SMTP server. If you hosting on a shared server, the hosting provider would
> have already configured an SMTP server. In most cases, you wouldn't have
> to specify an SMTP server address. You just need to simply set the from
> and to addresses and call send.
>
> --
> Bwig Zomberi

From: Jeff Johnson on 27 Apr 2010 09:44
"fniles" <fniles(a)pfmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to send an email (either from a VB program or ASP or
> HTML) if the machine has no Outlook and/or SMTP server ?

Here's how I read his post, folks. Perhaps my interpretation is wrong.

"Is it possible to send email without using a mail client such as Outlook
and without having an SMTP server installed LOCALLY?"

The answer: OF COURSE IT IS. Tons of people send email every day in these
very situations. All that's needed is to connect to a REMOTE SMTP server. I
don't believe he was asking if it's possible to send email without an SMTP
sever involved AT SOME POINT.

The answer is "do a Google search," because this question has been asked and
answered over and over.


From: Cor Ligthert[MVP] on 27 Apr 2010 13:24
Jeff,

I have returned the message only to the vb net newsgroup.
But that was in my first reply in the vb net newsgroup.

:-)

Cor

"Jeff Johnson" <i.get(a)enough.spam> wrote in message
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> "fniles" <fniles(a)pfmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Is there any way to send an email (either from a VB program or ASP or
>> HTML) if the machine has no Outlook and/or SMTP server ?
>
> Here's how I read his post, folks. Perhaps my interpretation is wrong.
>
> "Is it possible to send email without using a mail client such as Outlook
> and without having an SMTP server installed LOCALLY?"
>
> The answer: OF COURSE IT IS. Tons of people send email every day in these
> very situations. All that's needed is to connect to a REMOTE SMTP server.
> I don't believe he was asking if it's possible to send email without an
> SMTP sever involved AT SOME POINT.
>
> The answer is "do a Google search," because this question has been asked
> and answered over and over.
>
>
From: Michel Posseth [MCP] on 27 Apr 2010 14:35

I once wrote a VB6 catalogue program that had the ability to place orders
that had to be send to a e-mail adress of a reseller
after strugling with lots of methods ( registry etc etc ) to get the local
SMTP server and at one point running into a big problem where the users had
a Lotus Domino system i found out that it was much easier to send a form
posting over HTTP to a server that i controled and generate the e-mail from
there
to be send to the order department of the company where i wrote the program
for .

I then only needed the local email adress so the order department could
optionally reply to the placed order

Hope this helps

Michel



"fniles" <fniles(a)pfmail.com> schreef in bericht
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> Is there any way to send an email (either from a VB program or ASP or
> HTML) if the machine has no Outlook and/or SMTP server ?
> Thank you
>

From: Tom Shelton on 27 Apr 2010 15:01
On 2010-04-27, Michel Posseth [MCP] <msdn(a)posseth.com> wrote:
>
> I once wrote a VB6 catalogue program that had the ability to place orders
> that had to be send to a e-mail adress of a reseller
> after strugling with lots of methods ( registry etc etc ) to get the local
> SMTP server and at one point running into a big problem where the users had
> a Lotus Domino system i found out that it was much easier to send a form
> posting over HTTP to a server that i controled and generate the e-mail from
> there
> to be send to the order department of the company where i wrote the program
> for .
>
> I then only needed the local email adress so the order department could
> optionally reply to the placed order
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Michel
>

I could see that in the old days - but, really how many companies don't have
email now a days? Even a small company is going to have an email account -
all you need to know is the server address and the login info to send an
email. smtp is a very simple protocol.

--
Tom Shelton
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