Question

I have to create a project for my .NET classes. I came up with an idea of create email newsletter or autoresponder. I have to make it in 3 stages: 1. desktop application (in Windows Forms or WPF), 2. browser application, 3. mobile application.

Is this thing doable in .NET? I just need to know whether sending emails is possible in .NET applications and whether it’s relatively easy or too complicated to care about this idea.

Answer 1

.NET comes with an inbuilt function that makes sending emails super easy.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.smtpclient.aspx

Keep in mind that you will still need to provide .NET with an SMTP server.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol

using (SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp-server.MyDomain.com"))
{
    client.UseDefaultCredentials = true;

    using (MailMessage mail = new MailMessage())
    {
        mail.Subject = subject;
        mail.Body = body;

        mail.From = new MailAddress("[e-mail]");
        mail.To.Add("[e-mail]");

        client.Send(mail);
    }
}