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AJM
AJM

Reputation: 32490

Sending Email From Silverlight Without Using A Webservice to handle the emailing part

Is this possible? I assume not but would be happy to be proven wrong.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 102

Answers (2)

John
John

Reputation: 7049

If it has elevated privileges you can connect to the recipients SMTP server via TCP - Silverlight comes with a socket API. All you need to implement is a small subset of the SMTP protocol, which is fairly easy. No need for COM and works also in Silverlight 3.

Upvotes: 0

iCollect.it Ltd
iCollect.it Ltd

Reputation: 93601

Making Silverlight capable of becoming a spamming platform out-of-the-box would be considered "really really bad". Thankfully it is not allowed by default :)

You can however now communicate with COM components, so it is possible to do pretty much anything (if the COM components are installed). This includes full COM automation of apps (like office apps, including Outlook). You can also write your own COM components but of course they have to be installed independently of Silverlight.

Upvotes: 1

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