I want to automatically email a daily status report every might from a completely unattended computer.
Reading through the hundreds of old posts on this subject it seems most of them rely or routines written by others or external modules that exist in other programs (like Outlook) and there are troubles depending on which version you have and which OS you are using.
For instance I am using a freshly installed Windows 7 computer and there are no references or components for MAPI or Outlook. There is no email program installed on it so I haven't a default mail username or password.
Is there a way of using just Winsock alone by simply sending the right code sequence to an email server to achieve this?
It would seem there is but I can't find any documentation or examples of what data to send in the right order or format.
Maybe it needs to receive data back from the server before it can send the message?
It seems so munch easier to use someone else's routines that I suspect the basics have been forgotten but surely it only amounts to a few hundred bytes of data?
I tried the "free" EASendMail which appears to work fine but I suspect it is also sending something to someone else every time I use it as I got new spam straight after I tried it.
Any suggestions?
Reading through the hundreds of old posts on this subject it seems most of them rely or routines written by others or external modules that exist in other programs (like Outlook) and there are troubles depending on which version you have and which OS you are using.
For instance I am using a freshly installed Windows 7 computer and there are no references or components for MAPI or Outlook. There is no email program installed on it so I haven't a default mail username or password.
Is there a way of using just Winsock alone by simply sending the right code sequence to an email server to achieve this?
It would seem there is but I can't find any documentation or examples of what data to send in the right order or format.
Maybe it needs to receive data back from the server before it can send the message?
It seems so munch easier to use someone else's routines that I suspect the basics have been forgotten but surely it only amounts to a few hundred bytes of data?
I tried the "free" EASendMail which appears to work fine but I suspect it is also sending something to someone else every time I use it as I got new spam straight after I tried it.
Any suggestions?