Emailing From a Windows Application

[John Smith]

Hey folks,

I've got a C# Windows application that needs the ability to send emails. It
should behave the same way as when you click on a mailto link through a web
browser (i.e. open up the user's default mail client and start a new email).

How would I do that in a Windows C# application? It must be compatible with
Outlook 97-2003.

Thanks a lot!

[Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]]

John, take a look at the System.Web.Mail namespace. It contains all the
classes you need, and you can use them in Windows forms apps as well.

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"John Smith" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
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Hey folks,

I've got a C# Windows application that needs the ability to send emails.
It
should behave the same way as when you click on a mailto link through a
web
browser (i.e. open up the user's default mail client and start a new
email).

How would I do that in a Windows C# application? It must be compatible
with
Outlook 97-2003.

Thanks a lot!

[John Smith]

Thx. Actually though, everything I've read states that the System.Web.Mail
Namespace can not open your default mail client and behave like the mailto
link.

I did find what I was looking for though. For all you future google
searchers:
System.Diagnost ics.Process.Sta rt(string.Forma t("mailto:{0}?S ubject={1}&Body =
{2}", "me*******@meEm ail.com", "Me Subject", "Me Body"));

Thanks for the help though Kai.
"Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]" <ka******@onlin e.microsoft.com > wrote in message
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John, take a look at the System.Web.Mail namespace. It contains all the
classes you need, and you can use them in Windows forms apps as well.

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Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]

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"John Smith" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:OE******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...

Hey folks,

I've got a C# Windows application that needs the ability to send emails.
It
should behave the same way as when you click on a mailto link through a
web
browser (i.e. open up the user's default mail client and start a new
email).

How would I do that in a Windows C# application? It must be compatible
with
Outlook 97-2003.

Thanks a lot!

[Bonj]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but just a couple of questions... I tried using
the System.Web.Mail namespace, and found it to work, but with a couple of
reservations: it only worked on a PC that had IIS (with SMTP) installed, and
setting the SmtpServer property beforehand had no effect (I was curious to
see this is a static method!?). If I stopped IIS, then the SendMail didn't
throw an exception, but the mail never got there - but it then came through
when I started the IIS server again!
Is there any pointers on how to do it operating off the SMTP server of a
remote machine running IIS?

"Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]" wrote:

John, take a look at the System.Web.Mail namespace. It contains all the
classes you need, and you can use them in Windows forms apps as well.

--
Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]

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"John Smith" <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:OE******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P11.phx.gbl...

Hey folks,

I've got a C# Windows application that needs the ability to send emails.
It
should behave the same way as when you click on a mailto link through a
web
browser (i.e. open up the user's default mail client and start a new
email).

How would I do that in a Windows C# application? It must be compatible
with
Outlook 97-2003.

Thanks a lot!