sending mail with gmail or other

[HarryBrock]

Hello,

I have a question about sending mail without using outlook. I know how to do it with outlook.

Say I have two fields in a table username and password.

When the click on a button I want the user to login the user into their gmail account and start a new...the body of the email would be filled with data from other tables.

Could someone point me in the right direction on how to do this?

 

[Stefan]

Have you looked at smtpmail.p? It will talk to the smtp mail server directly. I have never tried this with google's mail servers.

http://freeframework.sourceforge.net/downloads/new/smtpmail/

 

[HarryBrock]

Thanks. I had a look at it.

I also came across this: http://amduus.com/cms/?q=node/58

 

[vdennis]

Just a word about something to watch for. SMTPmail will not 'catch' emails if your connection goes down. We use MS Exchange and from time to time it goes down. I had to write a routine that checks for errors like that and hold the information in a data file until the server came back up. As we send several thousand emails a day, we needed a way not to lose the data.

 

[HarryBrock]

Thanks.

I went ahead and made a .Net dll to send email.