sending Mail in a Service

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DraguVaso

Hi,

I need to send some emails in my Windows Service (VB.NET 2005). I made for
that a simple class, which works fine when I use it in a Windows Forms
application.

Although: When I put it in my Windows Service I got problems:
- I'm not able to let the Service send e-mails.
- When I let my service send an e-mail during the Starting or Stoping of the
Service, it takes minutes before the Service is started or stopped (and no
e-mail is send).

Is there any particular reason for this? Can't Services send emails, or what
am I possibly doing wrong?

Any help would be really appreciated!

thanks a lot in advance,

Pieter



The class I use for sending the mails is this:


Option Explicit On

Public Class clsMail

Public Sub SendMail(ByVal strTo As String, ByVal strSubject As String,
ByVal strMessage As String)
Dim Appl As Object
Dim out As Object
Try
Appl = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
out = Appl.CreateItem(0)
With out
.Subject = strSubject
.To = strTo
.Body = strMessage

'Send it!
.Send()
End With
Catch ex As Exception
ErrorMessageSilent(Me, ex)
End Try
End Sub

End Class
 
You might try using the System.Web.Mail namespace instead of Outlook.
You'll have to add a reference to System.Web.dll to access the namespace.
 
I tried using the System.Web.Mail and added a reference to System.Web.dll but
it's not recognizing MailMessage or SmtpMail.
 
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