Ah, another virus author... :)
SMTP should be as reliable (or unreliable as the case may be) as MAPI,
because at end of the day, SMTP is the mechanism where emails are forwarded
in the internet, and SMTP does not guarantee delivery. In fact, there is
also no guarantee that you will get a bounced email because of no delivery.
Worse still, you can get a bounced email, yet the email is delivered. I.e.,
you don't know whether the email is ever delivered. Some say email was
modeled after postal mail!
The one problem with using SMTP is not all exchange servers are installed
with SMTP, but this may not be a problem with you case, if you are sending
email from the lab.
If you use automation or CDO to send emails using Outlook, there is no way
to alter the from address, but you can do that with extended MAPI.
Dennis.
(Also in Parnell)
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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:12 PM
Subject: [DUG]: Email questions
Hi all
I recently moved an app from using MAPI with Outlook, to using SMTP. My
reasons were 2-fold. To get around the Outlook prompt - "A program is trying
to send an email on your behalf. This could be a virus. Do you want to allow
this?" My other reason, was that it's a batch app which sends 100's of
emails out to our advisers and I didn't want the "from" address to be the
developers email, where the app was run. (With SMTP I could define the from
address).
Now I have a concern. One email I read recently made me wonder if SMTP is as
reliable as MAPI - in getting bulk emails out successfully without failure.
My questions:
Is MAPI more reliable than SMTP?
Can the "from" be forced to a different address using MAPI?
Any comments appreciated.
Cheers
Dave Jollie
Developer, TOWER NZ IT
(: 09 368 4259
J: 09 306 6801
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.: 46 Parnell Rd, Parnell, Auckland
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