Email without SMTP Server

[Sehboo]

Hello,

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Thanks

[CJ Taylor]

No.

You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses SMTP
as its sending gateway.

"Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7b**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hello,

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Thanks

[Sjaakie Helderhorst]

You need SMTP to send mail around. You could write your own (stripped down)
SMTP-server.
BTW: You're not writing a new mass mailer I hope...

"Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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Hello,

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Thanks

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* ma*********@hotmail.com (Sehboo) scripsit:

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Why not use a "remote" SMTP server?

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Cor]

Hi Sehboo,

did you already look at this website

<http://www.indyproject.org/indy.html>.

It seems that they have a great name in Delphi and are now busy for .Net

Cor

[Sehboo]

I am not sure what you mean by "remote" SMTP server.

hi***************@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) wrote in message news:<c1*************@ID-208219.news.uni-berlin.de>...

* ma*********@hotmail.com (Sehboo) scripsit:

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Why not use a "remote" SMTP server?

[Sjaakie Helderhorst]

He means your provider's (ISP) SMTP-server (or an open proxy).

"Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:7b**************************@posting.google.c om...

I am not sure what you mean by "remote" SMTP server.

hi***************@gmx.at (Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]) wrote in message

news:<c1*************@ID-208219.news.uni-berlin.de>...

* ma*********@hotmail.com (Sehboo) scripsit:

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Why not use a "remote" SMTP server?

[dave wanta]

That's not quite true.

You do not "need" a mail server to do this. Well, you need the
recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. All you need to
do is perform a MX record lookup, for the remote mail server's domain,
and then, using the SMTP protocol, deliever the the mail directly to
the recipient's inbox.

That's exactly what http://www.aspNetEmail.com does with it's
DirectSend() method.

http://www.aspnetemail.com/help/aspn...irectsend.html

Cheers!
Dave
"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

No.

You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses SMTP
as its sending gateway.

"Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7b**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hello,

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Thanks

[CJ Taylor]

> That's not quite true.

You do not "need" a mail server to do this. Well, you need the
recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. All you need to
do is perform a MX record lookup, for the remote mail server's domain,
and then, using the SMTP protocol, deliever the the mail directly to
the recipient's inbox.
So... Your using a server? That uses the SMTP protocol? To send mail?

And where was my statement "not true"


That's exactly what http://www.aspNetEmail.com does with it's
DirectSend() method.

http://www.aspnetemail.com/help/aspn...irectsend.html

Cheers!
Dave
"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message

news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

No.

You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses SMTP as its sending gateway.

"Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7b**************************@posting.google.c om...

Hello,

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

Thanks

[Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu]

ma*********@hotmail.com (Sehboo) wrote in news:7bfc97ca.0403010642.7c273015
@posting.google.com:

Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?

www.indyproject.org - SMTP Relay
--
Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/
"Programming is an art form that fights back"

[dave wanta]

There's no relay server involved.

"you need the recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. "

Cheers!
Dave

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

That's not quite true.

You do not "need" a mail server to do this. Well, you need the
recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. All you need to
do is perform a MX record lookup, for the remote mail server's domain,
and then, using the SMTP protocol, deliever the the mail directly to
the recipient's inbox.

So... Your using a server? That uses the SMTP protocol? To send mail?

And where was my statement "not true"

That's exactly what http://www.aspNetEmail.com does with it's
DirectSend() method.

http://www.aspnetemail.com/help/aspn...irectsend.html

Cheers!
Dave
"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message

news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

No.

You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses SMTP as its sending gateway.

"Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7b**************************@posting.google.c om...
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without using
> SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?
>
> Thanks

[CJ Taylor]

"dave wanta" <go*****@123aspx.com> wrote in message
news:e2**************************@posting.google.c om...

There's no relay server involved.

"you need the recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. "

" You do not "need" a mail server to do this."

So... Because you say "receiving" instead of SMTP that makes you more
correct? I don't get it...

Cheers!
Dave

"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message

news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

That's not quite true.

You do not "need" a mail server to do this. Well, you need the
recieving mail server to recieve mail, but that's it. All you need to
do is perform a MX record lookup, for the remote mail server's domain,
and then, using the SMTP protocol, deliever the the mail directly to
the recipient's inbox.

So... Your using a server? That uses the SMTP protocol? To send mail?

And where was my statement "not true"

That's exactly what http://www.aspNetEmail.com does with it's
DirectSend() method.

http://www.aspnetemail.com/help/aspn...irectsend.html

Cheers!
Dave
"CJ Taylor" <no****@blowgoats.com> wrote in message

news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

> No.
>
> You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses

SMTP

> as its sending gateway.
>
>
>
> "Sehboo" <ma*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7b**************************@posting.google.c om...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to send an email from vb.net application without

using > > SMTP server? Are there any third-party components that I can use?
> >
> > Thanks