How to send Lotus Notes Email Via C#

[navyliu]

I want send Lotus Notes Email automatic in my Application.I googled this
topic but I can't find the solution.
Does anyone have ever use this function?Can you give me some advice? Thanks
a lot!

[Truong Hong Thi]

Most mail servers (including Lotus Notes) would support SMTP protocol.
You should ask admin about stuff like server name (or IP), port.
Then use System.Web.Mail (.net 1.1) or System.Net.Mail (.net 2.0).

Thi
http://thith.blogspot.com

navyliu wrote:

I want send Lotus Notes Email automatic in my Application.I googled this
topic but I can't find the solution.
Does anyone have ever use this function?Can you give me some advice? Thanks
a lot!

[Oliver Sturm]

Hello navyliu,

I found this interesting because I used to do similar things when I was
still using Delphi, so I had a look around and found a number of things.
First, there's IBM's Lotus developer area with a number of downloads here:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork.../toolkits.html

There's also a link there to the developer forums, which I found a good
resource back when I was doing this. I couldn't see a .NET specific
download there, but at least they still have the C/C++ API, so it should
be pretty easy to make use of that, if necessary.

The .NET thing seems to be provided in pretty comprehensive form by a 3rd
party, if you're willing to go that way. A company called Proposion has an
interface component/library for .NET. Info is here:

http://www.proposion.com/N2NV3

Hope this helps!
Oliver Sturm
--
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog

[Oliver Sturm]

Hello Thi,

>Most mail servers (including Lotus Notes) would support SMTP protocol.
You should ask admin about stuff like server name (or IP), port.
Then use System.Web.Mail (.net 1.1) or System.Net.Mail (.net 2.0).

Good idea there :-) I went a bit further in what I used to do with Lotus
Notes, but of course using SMTP might very well be an option if sending
email is really the only thing you want to do.

OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if SMTP wasn't an option in many locations
using Notes - in my experience, they often like to use the Notes protocol
exclusively on the internal side of their networks... Not a Notes specific
thing really, very many Exchange networks won't allow you to do SMTP
internally either.
Oliver Sturm
--
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog

[Chris Parker]

navyliu wrote:

I want send Lotus Notes Email automatic in my Application.I googled this
topic but I can't find the solution.
Does anyone have ever use this function?Can you give me some advice? Thanks
a lot!

What I did (back in my C# days) was write a small application in Java
that I could call from C#. There are some really great Java libraries
for Lotus Notes that are really well documented. They also include
support for calendaring and the Lotus Notes database. C# is a WHOLE
lot like Java (almost like they borrowed the language from Java, hrmm)
and writing Java code from a C# coders standpoint is easy.