Is there any object in .net 2.0 for mail?

[PulkitZery]

Hi, I am looking to create an object of a mail message and pass to to my another function running on my SMTP server (so that we dont have to configure SMTP server on our each client). Is there any way or object out there in vb.net 2005 that let us create an object of a mail and pass it to another function, where i can parse all the fields?

[Plater]

You are in luck, there is a whole article for sending mail in .NET.
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread648873.html

[Frinavale]

Hi, I am looking to create an object of a mail message and pass to to my another function running on my SMTP server (so that we dont have to configure SMTP server on our each client). Is there any way or object out there in vb.net 2005 that let us create an object of a mail and pass it to another function, where i can parse all the fields?

I suggest creating a web service that will send the email for you...

Have your function in your windows application create the body of the email message, and collect the "to" and "from" information....then have your function send that information to your web service which will send the email for you (follow the article that Plater has suggest you read for instructions on how to send an email)

Cheers!

-Frinny

[PulkitZery]

I suggest creating a web service that will send the email for you...

Have your function in your windows application create the body of the email message, and collect the "to" and "from" information....then have your function send that information to your web service which will send the email for you (follow the article that Plater has suggest you read for instructions on how to send an email)

Cheers!

-Frinny

Hey guys, Thanks very much for your reply.
Frinavale, That is exectly what i want. I want to sent all the mail information to my web service and and this web service will sent the emails out. Do you have any article that explains how to do this? Thanks very much.

[Frinavale]

Hey guys, Thanks very much for your reply.
Frinavale, That is exectly what i want. I want to sent all the mail information to my web service and and this web service will sent the emails out. Do you have any article that explains how to do this? Thanks very much.

That sounds like an awesome article to write!
I'll see if I can whip one up...but in the mean time I'm sorry we don't really have anything here on theScripts in that regard.

What exactly are you stuck on?
How to create a web service?
How to use that web service?
How to send an email?

-Frinny

[PulkitZery]

That sounds like an awesome article to write!
I'll see if I can whip one up...but in the mean time I'm sorry we don't really have anything here on theScripts in that regard.

What exactly are you stuck on?
How to create a web service?
How to use that web service?
How to send an email?

-Frinny

I want to know, How to create a web service and how to use it. Thanks very much.

[Frinavale]

I want to know, How to create a web service and how to use it. Thanks very much.

Well if you're really patient and want to learn this properly I suggest you check out MSDN.

How Web Services actually work can get pretty complicated...they use Soap, which is based on XML to send information to and from your Web Service.

The Web Service itself is really just a bunch of functions hosted on the web that you can access from your desktop application or web application written in any language.

They are really powerful! Mainly because you can write a function in C# and host it as a Web Service..then you can use it in a Java application or VB application... or even Cobol.

.NET makes it pretty easy though.

I'd suggest looking up Web Services with Google to get started....there are plenty of tutorials out there to get you started.

-Frinny

[PulkitZery]

Hey Frinny Thanks for your suggestion, I have everything set up and it works. The only thing i am stuck on right now is, How can I send the attachments (more then one documents) to the web service?

If I try to pass MailAttachment as a peremeter then it gives me this error:
System.Web.Mail.MailAttachment cannot be serialized because it does not have a default public constructor.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jerry

[Frinavale]

Hey Frinny Thanks for your suggestion, I have everything set up and it works. The only thing i am stuck on right now is, How can I send the attachments (more then one documents) to the web service?

If I try to pass MailAttachment as a peremeter then it gives me this error:
System.Web.Mail.MailAttachment cannot be serialized because it does not have a default public constructor.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jerry

What are you trying to send as an attachment?
Remember before how I said that Web Services use Soap to send messages.
This limits the object types that you are able to send to your service.

Instead of trying to send System.Web.MailAttachment, you will have to take your attachment, serialize it into a format that can be sent using Soap (likely text or something) before you can try to send it to the Web Service....then in your Web Service, you will have to recreate the Attachment and go from there.

Am I making any sense?

-Frinny

[PulkitZery]

What are you trying to send as an attachment?
Remember before how I said that Web Services use Soap to send messages.
This limits the object types that you are able to send to your service.

Instead of trying to send System.Web.MailAttachment, you will have to take your attachment, serialize it into a format that can be sent using Soap (likely text or something) before you can try to send it to the Web Service....then in your Web Service, you will have to recreate the Attachment and go from there.

Am I making any sense?

-Frinny

Yes, Thats exactly what I am trying to do, but havent got any sucess yet. Can you point me to any link or documentation that explains how to convert the files into a format that can be sent to the Web Service. And after its received by the web service, how can i reconvert into the original file.
Thanks for your help!

Jerry

[Frinavale]

You're going to want to look up Serialization.

This is a great article on using serialization in .NET (scroll down past the advertisements...)
This article also looks pretty good as well...especially part 5.

I'm really happy that this stuff is working out so well for you!

-Frinny