Where can I get information about setting up a SMTP email service?

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I need to develop a SMTP email service within our application. The application is coded in C++ using the .NET framework. I've looked everywhere online but I have been unable to find anything useful. Mostly what I find is information about setting up an email service in HTML. I just need to know how to get started. Could someone point me in the right direction? Are there APIs out there that I could use instead of reinventing the wheel? Any help would be appreciated.

Posted 5-Aug-13 6:14am

CommanderRykker

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Aug-13 12:18pm

Why not using existing SMTP service, as a separate service?
—SA

ZurdoDev 5-Aug-13 12:19pm

.Net has the System.Net.Mail namespace which allows you to generate and send emails.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Aug-13 12:23pm

Of course, but sending using available SMTP service. OP wants their own service (I'm not sure why).
We put two answers by now, please see...
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-08-05T06:25:00

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I don't know how come you could not find any.

Please see this CodeProject article: SMTP Server[^].

Maybe you need to look better? Please see: http://bit.ly/13fo2Xc[^].

—SA

Posted 5-Aug-13 6:25am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Aug-13 12:39pm

A 5 for these links; especially the CP article.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Aug-13 12:44pm

Thank you, Richard.
—SA

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2013-08-05T06:18:00

Solution 1

You need to follow the RFC[^].

Posted 5-Aug-13 6:18am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Aug-13 12:26pm

After all, why not? 5ed.
I also answered, with some links... :-) How come OP could not find any implementations?... :-)
—SA

Richard MacCutchan 5-Aug-13 12:38pm

How could they not find? Easy, by not trying.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Aug-13 12:44pm

Exactly... :-)
—SA