send mail using SMTP Send Message when mail server is unknown

[meghna]

I have Intenet Developers Toolkit.I am using SMTP Send Message vi to send mail. When I am specifying mail server address, it works fine. But, if mail server is unknown to me then how I can send mail?

[mikeporter]

You can't. You have to know the name (or IP address) of a mail server to send mail. You see with email you aren't sending a message directly to the other machine, rather you send a packet of information describing the message to a server that then performs the necessary processing to get the message to its intended recipient(s).

Why is it that you don't know the address of your mail server?

Mike...

[meghna]

I have to develop a program like that our client will distribute exe to his vendors. So, how can I know the address of a mail server at vendor end? I think, now u have got my problem. Can I read mail server address from Windows registery? But, then for direct connection what steps should be taken?

[Craig Graham]

Possible bodge that I did once; see attached. If you can't find it then
ultimately you'll have to prompt the user to enter it and then save the
setting.

--
Craig Graham, Software Engineer
Applied Analysis and Integration Limited, UK


"meghna" wrote in message
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> I have to develop a program like that our client will distribute exe
> to his vendors. So, how can I know the address of a mail server at
> vendor end? I think, now u have got my problem. Can I read mail server
> address from Windows registery? But, then for direct connection what
> steps should be taken?



[Attachment Find Mail Server.vi, see below]

[meghna]

Can u convert this vi for LabVIEW 6i as I am not having LabVIEW 6.1?

[mikeporter]

Alternately, you can have it as part of the customer configuration and store the setting in the *.ini file. For example, LV itself has a variety of user options that are accessed from a configuration dialog box and stored in the LabVIEW.ini file.

Mike...