SmtpClient class alternative?

[Afshar]

Dear Friends,

I want to send email but don't wanna use SmtpClient class, because I
want more control on generated mail. Is there any good alternative?


Thanks In Advance

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RE: SmtpClient class alternative?

What kind of control are you talking about. If you want ultimate control, the
SMTP protocal is a fairly simple text based protocal so it wouldnt take long
to write your own.

--
Ciaran O''Donnell

http://wannabedeveloper.spaces.live.com

"Afshar" wrote:

Dear Friends,
>
I want to send email but don't wanna use SmtpClient class, because I
want more control on generated mail. Is there any good alternative?
>
>
Thanks In Advance
>

[Afshar]

Re: SmtpClient class alternative?

On Sep 18, 5:34 pm, Ciaran O''Donnell
<CiaranODonn... @discussions.mi crosoft.comwrot e:

What kind of control are you talking about. If you want ultimate control,the
SMTP protocal is a fairly simple text based protocal so it wouldnt take long
to write your own.
>
--
Ciaran O''Donnellhttp://wannabedevelope r.spaces.live.c om
>
"Afshar" wrote:

Dear Friends,

>

I want to send email but don't wanna use SmtpClient class, because I
want more control on generated mail. Is there any good alternative?

>

Thanks In Advance

Thanks for reply, but I'm not very familiar with SMTP protocal and
specially its underlying TCP/IP. In fact I didn't leverage any
protocol like this. By "Full Control" I mean: I can select how email
source is generated and I could reduce the size of generated mail.



Afshar

[John Vottero]

Re: SmtpClient class alternative?

"Afshar" <afshar.mohebbi @gmail.comwrote in message
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>>

I want to send email but don't wanna use SmtpClient class, because I
want more control on generated mail. Is there any good alternative?

>>

Thanks In Advance

>
>Thanks for reply, but I'm not very familiar with SMTP protocal and
>specially its underlying TCP/IP. In fact I didn't leverage any
>protocol like this. By "Full Control" I mean: I can select how email
>source is generated and I could reduce the size of generated mail.

What's wrong with SmtpClient? You can call the Send() overload that takes a
string as the message body, you have total control over how you generate
that string.

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: SmtpClient class alternative?

"Afshar" <afshar.mohebbi @gmail.comwrote in message
news:f456aac3-cf19-49ae-9619-b9c735437394@m3 g2000hsc.google groups.com...

I want to send email but don't wanna use SmtpClient class, because I
want more control on generated mail. Is there any good alternative?

Slightly puzzled... What aspect(s) of sending email via the SmtpClient class
do not provide enough control for you...?


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP

http://www.markrae.net

[Afshar]

Re: SmtpClient class alternative?

On Sep 21, 4:05 am, "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m...@markNOSPA Mrae.netwrote:

"Afshar" <afshar.mohe... @gmail.comwrote in message
>
news:f456aac3-cf19-49ae-9619-b9c735437394@m3 g2000hsc.google groups.com...
>

I want to send email but don't wanna useSmtpClientcl ass, because I
want more control on generated mail. Is there any goodalternative ?

>
Slightly puzzled... What aspect(s) of sending email via theSmtpClientcl ass
do not provide enough control for you...?
>
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVPhttp://www.markrae.net

Thanks for attention, I'm developing some prtotocol called ECE over e-
mail. ECE has been invented to relate so many companies/organizations
via their ERP software. Each software developer is supposed to
implement ECE in its software. One of software developers that we had
to communicate with parses just 18 first lines of each email. Since in
the ECE protocol a header named "X-ECE_SEND" must be inserted in the
email and our generated email contains this header after line 18, so
they can not recognize our email as a valid ECE email. And I had to
find some way to insert this header in the first 18 lines of email. I
know the problem may be in MailMessage class but I guess SmtpClient
may be involved too. Here is my code for generating and sending mail
and a typical mail message produced:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Generating mail itself:
public static MailMessage CreateMail(stri ng
attachmentFileN ame, string letterSubject, List<MailAddres sreceivers,
MailAddress sender, string body)
{
System.Net.Mail .MailMessage mail = new
System.Net.Mail .MailMessage();
if (!string.IsNull OrEmpty(attachm entFileName))
{
Attachment attachment = new
Attachment(atta chmentFileName) ;
mail.Attachment s.Add(attachmen t);
}
NameValueCollec tion headers = new NameValueCollec tion();
mail.Body = body;
mail.From = sender;
foreach (MailAddress addr in receivers) mail.To.Add(add r);
mail.BodyEncodi ng = Encoding.UTF8;
mail.DeliveryNo tificationOptio ns =
DeliveryNotific ationOptions.On Success;
mail.Headers.Ad d("X-ECE_SEND", "1.01");
mail.Subject = letterSubject;
return mail;
}


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sending it:

public static void SendMail(MailMe ssage mail, bool enableSsl)
{
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
client.EnableSs l = enableSsl;
client.Send(mai l);
client = null;
}

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A typical generated email:

Delivered-To: afshar.mohebbi@ gmail.com
Received: by 10.103.12.5 with SMTP id p5cs383851mui;
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:28:32 -0700 (PDT)

Received: by 10.210.65.17 with SMTP id n17mr2831948eba .
92.121947651247 0;
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <ece.tester@gma il.com>

Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com
[74.125.78.26])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 7si2421867eyb.
1.2008.08.23.00 .28.31;

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:28:32 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of ece.tester@gmai l.com
designates 74.125.78.26 as permitted sender) client-ip=74.125.78.26 ;

Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of
ece.tester@gmai l.com designates 74.125.78.26 as permitted sender)
smtp.mail=ece.t ester@gmail.com ; dkim=pass (test mode)
header.i=@gmail .com

Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so68580eya.49
for <afshar.mohebbi @gmail.com>; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:28:31 -0700
(PDT)

DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
h=domainkey-signature:recei ved:received:x-ece_send:mime-
version:from
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Received: by 10.210.125.7 with SMTP id x7mr2792181ebc.
184.12194765103 85;
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:28:30 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <ece.tester@gma il.com>

Received: from programmer07 ( [91.184.73.21])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p10sm9113630gvf .
7.2008.08.23.00 .28.26
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:28:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Afshar Mohebbi

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Re: SmtpClient class alternative?

"Afshar" <afshar.mohebbi @gmail.comwrote in message
news:e1091a6d-81c8-4bf5-91d0-2eb62134ec9f@a1 g2000hsb.google groups.com...

>I want to send email but don't wanna useSmtpClientcl ass, because I
>want more control on generated mail. Is there any goodalternative ?

>
Slightly puzzled... What aspect(s) of sending email via theSmtpClientcl ass
do not provide enough control for you...?
>
One of software developers that we had to communicate with parses just
18 first lines of each email. Since in the ECE protocol a header named
"X-ECE_SEND" must be inserted in the email and our generated email
contains this header after line 18, so they can not recognize our email as
a valid ECE email.

And the software developers can't / won't fix their code for you...?


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP

http://www.markrae.net

[Afshar]

Re: SmtpClient class alternative?

And the software developers can't / won't fix their code for you...?


No, they don't want to correct this. They are not supposed to fully
support their code unfortunately.
Thanks of all other friends for their replies.


Afshar