Hi to all,

I'm writing a VB program which involves email. I have a couple of questions:

1. How do I know what kind of mail service a system has?
2. Is there a way to send email without having to worry about what kind of
mail service a system has?

Thanks for responses.

Cheers.

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 02:59:02 GMT, "Nhat Nam Trinh"

If you want to 'roll your own', you can use our free
SocketWrench package (which includes a Windows Sockets
and RAS dialer control) to create a simple SMTP client.
We include a tutorial that should get you started if
you don't have much experience with TCP/IP programming.
You should also read RFC821 for the commands that you
need to send, and for the response codes sent back from
the server that you'll need to handle. We also have a
commercial package which includes components for SMTP,
POP3 and MIME which would make things considerably
easier to deal with. You can download either
package from our website at http://www.catalyst.com.

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