Unique email/messaging requirement!!!!

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Hi,
We have a unique email/messaging requirement. We have a Windows application
in VB.NET. Our customers need to be able to send email or a message to our
server. But the catch is that they do not have an exchange server or any SMTP
mail server. All we can count on is that they have an internet connection. In
worst cases it could be just a dial-up. Is there anyway that we can have them
send messages to our server in this kind of setup? Is so using what?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Rupa
 
you could create some sort of an appl on the server that listens for data on
a particular port. Then your client applications can send some data packets
to the server/port in question. What kind of messages need to be sent to the
server ?
 
This seems like a perfect candidate for web services. Have you considered
creating a web service on your server that the Windows App can call, and
your server can handle the actual mailing?

In essence you're creating a really technically-advanced version of a SMTP
open relay, but let me know if you need some coding guidance to do this...

Brandon
 
yea Rupa, I second Brandon on using webservices because then you wont have
to worry about firewalls on the client side and building a hole through them
to reach your server. Hey Brandon I think what Rupa menat was that she wanted
someway for the application deployed on the client side to be able to be able
to connect to the parent site like for e.g. to get the latest updates or some
data files or other such information etc. ..am I right Rupa?
 
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