SMTP & Mailer.exe Sample

[Al G]

Has anyone played with MS's SMTP sample, mailer.exe? I downloaded the
sample, and ran it, but keep getting the error "Failure sending mail". Where
might I look for more information? Maybe some troubleshooting tips?

Thanks in advance, you folks have helped with some of my other projects,
simply by answering someone else's question.

Al G

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Has anyone played with MS's SMTP sample, mailer.exe? I downloaded the
sample, and ran it, but keep getting the error "Failure sending mail".
Where might I look for more information? Maybe some troubleshooting
tips?

Thanks in advance, you folks have helped with some of my other
projects, simply by answering someone else's question.

Perhaps using .NET's built in mail classes instead?

[Al G]

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"Al G" <ag*******@nospam.charter.netwrote in
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>Has anyone played with MS's SMTP sample, mailer.exe? I downloaded the
sample, and ran it, but keep getting the error "Failure sending mail".
Where might I look for more information? Maybe some troubleshooting
tips?

Thanks in advance, you folks have helped with some of my other
projects, simply by answering someone else's question.

Perhaps using .NET's built in mail classes instead?

That's what I was trying to investigate when I found the Mailer sample.
I'm comfortable in VB, but fairly new to dotnet.

I probably should mention that I am using VS2005/SP1, XP, and have
located the IIS and have the default SMTP vitual server. I am on a network
at work, that has internet access through a router.

My goal is a console application triggered by a batch file to send
customer reports as attachments via email. Everything is in place, and is
currently working(sorta) using an off the shelf product called "Windmail".
"Windmail" is unreliable, and produces no meaningful error messages, so I'm
out to replace it.
Al G

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My goal is a console application triggered by a batch file to send
customer reports as attachments via email. Everything is in place, and
is currently working(sorta) using an off the shelf product called
"Windmail". "Windmail" is unreliable, and produces no meaningful error
messages, so I'm out to replace it.

Take a look at the System.Net.Mail namespace - it's the .NET 2.0 mail
class. .NET's 2.0 mail class has been totally rewritten and is native to
..NET (no external components I believe) so it's quite reliable:

http://www.systemnetmail.com/

[Al G]

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"Al G" <ag*******@nospam.charter.netwrote in
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> My goal is a console application triggered by a batch file to send
customer reports as attachments via email. Everything is in place, and
is currently working(sorta) using an off the shelf product called
"Windmail". "Windmail" is unreliable, and produces no meaningful error
messages, so I'm out to replace it.

Take a look at the System.Net.Mail namespace - it's the .NET 2.0 mail
class. .NET's 2.0 mail class has been totally rewritten and is native to
.NET (no external components I believe) so it's quite reliable:

http://www.systemnetmail.com/

Cool, that worked. Thanks for your help.

Al G