Email without SMTP Server

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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
 
No.

You need some sort of mail server to do this. I think even IMAP uses SMTP
as its sending gateway.
 
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...
 
* (e-mail address removed) (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?
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Why not use a "remote" SMTP server?
 
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/aspnetemail.directsend.html

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

And where was my statement "not true"
 
There's no relay server involved.

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

Cheers!
Dave
 
dave wanta said:
There's no relay server involved.

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



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

And where was my statement "not true"


uses
SMTP
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Where did I say "relay server"

Relay or not.. it still requires a server... so yes you "need" a server.


dave wanta said:
There's no relay server involved.

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

Cheers!
Dave



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

And where was my statement "not true"


uses
SMTP
Click to expand...
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