Why not just look up the MX record of the destination host and connect to 
the destination's SMTP server on port 25?



On Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:10:16 PM UTC-6, andjarnic wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering what the general census is on apps that, after installed, 
> upon initial startup (or in a prefs, config, etc) ask a user for permission 
> to use their credentials to post to facebook, twitter, flicr, S3, dropbox, 
> and even to use their gmail account to directly email on their behalf?
>
> I am playing around with a simple app idea that would like to send out 
> emails on the user's behalf, but I can't afford a central email service, so 
> my thought was, if the user grants me access, I can use their credentials 
> to send email through gmail api on their behalf. 
>
> Thus..my question is.. does this scare end users? If my description on the 
> market indicates that after initial installation, the app, in order to best 
> perform what it does to save the user time, requires their permission to 
> send out emails on their behalf, post to facebook, etc (the app would allow 
> the user to choose when to post to facebook, send emails, etc),will require 
> them to authorize my app to act on their behalf.. is this something that 
> most end users understand and are OK with? This is similar to an app like 
> yahoo allowing a user to log in with facebook info.. they user has to 
> accept the permission pop-up from facebook allowing yahoo (or other sites) 
> to use their facebook info. 
>
> Thanks
>

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