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Hi Professionals,

I am currently working on a mass emailing system. I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. With windows IIS in Windows XP SP3. My program can send mass emails using System.Net.Mail namespace found in .NET 2.0 but i have no idea on how to implement the receiving emails part.

Any advice, links, hints, tips, etc would be greatly appreciated.

Please accept my gratitude in advance.

Best Regards,
Md Azmil
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Common way to receive email is a POP3 server. .NET doesn't provide a built-in POP3 server so you'll have to write one of your own or get a third-party POP3 server. To get you started, try googling http://www.google.com/search?q=vb.net+pop3+server.

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P.s. I hope I don't help to build yet another spamming site
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Are you trying to write a mailserver from the ground up to listen on port 25 and accept inbound mail messages from remote MTAs, or are you wanting to use a POP3/IMAP/Exchange connection to download your email from your mailserver?
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Are you trying to write a mailserver from the ground up to listen on port 25 and accept inbound mail messages from remote MTAs, or are you wanting to use a POP3/IMAP/Exchange connection to download your email from your mailserver?
I am not sure if either one is the one I want. But what I sure of is I'm working on a mass email system for my school project. I am using Microsot Visual Studio 2005, IIS and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I am also using vb.net as my language and doing it in windows form.

I am able to send email using the System.Net.Mail namespace. But i am not sure what to use to program my system to display and receive emails.

Please advice.
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I think you have a fundamental misconception of how email works. Just because you sent an email doesn't mean you have to listen for it. Spammers send email all the time from fictitious addresses and never listen for responses.

In order to send email you need to do one of two things:
1) Create your own mailserver listening on port :25 for inbound email.
2) Connection to an existing mailserver (Your school's, ISPS, etc)

Everything falls under one of those two options
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Just because you sent an email doesn't mean you have to listen for it. Spammers send email all the time from fictitious addresses and never listen for responses.

In order to send email you need to do one of two things:
1) Create your own mailserver listening on port :25 for inbound email.

Firstly, I agree on the "Just because you sent an email doesn't mean you have to listen for it" but my project requires me to capture received emails. Secondly, I am not a spammer. And third, can the first option "1) Create your own mailserver listening on port :25 for inbound email." be used to capture receive emails?
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Yes it can but you're probably looking at a few months worth of development to get your first version of a mailserver live. I would highly suggest using an existing mailserver and querying it for messages with POP3/Image/Exchange.
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Yes it can but you're probably looking at a few months worth of development to get your first version of a mailserver live. I would highly suggest using an existing mailserver and querying it for messages with POP3/Image/Exchange.

Is the mail server free?
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That depends on what mailserver you decide to use....
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That depends on what mailserver you decide to use....
Ok. But is there any open source(free) or windows XP integrated mailserver that i can use?

Please advise.
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