Android Question Send Email Background

[imgsimonebiliato]

Hello,
Using net library is a perfect way to sending email.
But how can I send them, on the background, setting a different account from the field "sender"? Right now it works only with the device account or not?

 

[Erel]

You can use whichever account you like. SMTP object has nothing to do with the user account.

 

[imgsimonebiliato]

I don't understand.
The initialize method of smtp call:
Initialize (Server AsString, Port AsInt, Username AsString, Password AsString, EventName AsString)

 

[Erel]

I misunderstood your previous post.

Change the sender field with SMTP.Sender property (after it is initialized).

 

[imgsimonebiliato]

Sorry but I still do not understand.

If I use this code (assuming that "[email protected]" is my gmail account and the same that I use the phone):

Dim mailSMTP As SMTP

mail.Initialize("smtp.gmail.com", 587, "[email protected]", "PWDAAA", "SMTP")
mail.StartTLSMode = True 
mail.To.Add("[email protected]")
mail.Subject = "This is the subject"
mail.Body = "This is the message body."
mail.Send

I receive a mail from myself.

But if I set another account gmail when I initialize the variable "mail", the app doesn't send the mail.

 

[Erel]

Try:

mail.Initialize("smtp.gmail.com", 587, "[email protected]", "PWDAAA", "SMTP")
mail.StartTLSMode = True 
mail.To.Add("[email protected]")
mail.Subject = "This is the subject"
mail.Body = "This is the message body."
mail.Sender = "[email protected]" '<--------------------------------------------
mail.Send

BTW, I'm not sure that gmail will allow you to send emails with a different sender.

 

[imgsimonebiliato]

But I don't want to set my private password when initializing the variable.
I prefer to set the "[email protected]" pwd

 

[DonManfred]

But I don't want to set my private password when initializing the variable.
I prefer to set the "[email protected]" pwd

Then you should ask the user for email and pw which your app then can use in mail.Initialize

 

[imgsimonebiliato]

Is there any library that already do this?

 

[Erel]

Do what?

 

[imgsimonebiliato]

Do what?

A library that automatically set "user for email and pw"

 

[Erel]

There is no such library.

 

[imgsimonebiliato]

Ok thanks.
I will do my best

 

[yuval]

hi
you can open a gmail account just for sending this kind of mail.
( so the password issue will not be a big thing )
and then change the settings of the gmail account of
" access for less secure apps" to enabled.
and then the net library smtp function works great.

 

[JakeBullet70]

Gmail can and will fail if you are sending from a different city, location. So if you live in lets say Seattle, Wa. USA and someone in using your app in Europe. It will fail.

 

[yuval]

thanks Jake, you are probably right. do you know of any email providers that don't check where you are ?

 

[JakeBullet70]

Never did find one. I ended up buying some web hosting and used that.