Does anyone know how to send email directly from an application to a pop
mail server using the internet controls etc. Or is there an ocx already
available to do this. Any info greatly appreciated. (I do not wish to use
the mapi controls that come with VB5)

David Auld

Zane

David,

You can use our IDSMail control to do that.  Here is all the code you
would need:

Dim idsMail as Object
Set idsMail = CreateObject("IDSMailInterface.Server")
idsMail.ObjectKey = "ABC123"
idsMail.MailSystem =IDSM_SYS_SMTP_POP
idsMail.SMTPServer = "myprovider.com"
idsMail.NewMessage



idsMail.Subject = "Meeting Agenda"
idsMail.Message = "Here is the agenda for the weekly meeting."
idsMail.AddAttachment "C:\MEETINGS\AGENDA.DOC"
idsMail.Send

For more info, go to http://www.intuitive-data.com

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I needed to do a similar thing a few weeks back to get rid of 1300 spammed
emails from my POP3 server.  It took me 15 mins to find the POP3 spec,
write a small util using the VB5 winsock control to log onto my mail
server, issue the appropriate commands and hey presto.  It really is very
easy.  No third party controls necessary.  I can't imagine sending email to
be much more effort.

As a rule I tend to avoid 3rd party controls.  My experience with them in 3
years of VB programming has not been very good.  Most of them have been
badly constructed and tend to be more hassle than they are worth.

Alex..

Maybe you would like to share to the rest of comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
how you did this??
The question was howto do it.

Peter

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you the source (I don't have it handy at the moment).

The basic idea is that you log onto the POP3 server by sending the POP3
logon command as simple text, then a password in the same way.  The rest of
the session is basically sending and receiving text strings to the server
through the winsock control.

The POP3 command spec is fairly crucial to the whole thing (obviously).  I
found part of it, enough to do what I wanted, but if anyone out there has a
full(er) document, please send me a copy, or let me know where I can get
one.

Alex..

p.s. I'll assume you want a copy Peter.

Wow a chance to advertise my Web site, fresh out yesterday so please excuse
the mess :)

www.intralynx.co.uk/alex

The VB page has the source to the POP3 client I wrote.  The code is pretty
rough, but I think it is a good basis for whatever you want to do with it.

Having said all that, I've been hearing more and more bad things about the
winsock control that comes with VB5.  It might be better to look elsewhere
(Dolphin) for a more stable implementation.

Also http://www.ramgs.com/vbwinsock.html is a great resource of general VB
winsock programming.

Alex..

thanks.

Sorry, the site was down for a while recently.  Please try again.

Alex..

L8r,
Chizl - CEO
Karland International
www.karland.com

:->
[Snip-di-du]
:-> I downloaded your zip file and I have some questions for you..
:-> I do not want to make a email client I would like to just send a
:-> messeage to anyone at any time with out any interface..   I want it to
:-> be all behind the program where noone knows it has been sent..  Do you
:-> know how to do this..
:->
Try to look at my post from Tue, 2 Dec 1997 about 14:00. I think it'll help
you.

:->
:-> L8r,
:-> Chizl - CEO
:-> Karland International
:-> www.karland.com

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