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I have to concur with TonyB. Your application should be a mail client. One of the problems that most apps that send mail directly fail to deal with properly is greylisting. A real SMTP server knows how to handle the SMTP responses, many of the libraries do not.
Commented Apr 23, 2010 on So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code) at Coding Horror
So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
I have what I would charitably describe as a hate-hate relationship with email. I desperately try to avoid sending email, not just for myself, but also in the code I write. Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can't kill it. Email is the one method o...
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