Email Contents of TextBox on timer

I'm trying to email the contents of the textbox every ten minutes. I'm having some trouble on how to do the emailer, any help will be apprieciated.

There is a tutorial in the Tutors Corner by Cheif (I think) that explains how to use Telnet and Winsock to send an e-mail. It's quite simple.

You can either use the Outlook object (search the forum) or you can use Winsock and a free public SMTP server like HotMail.

Links: here (http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=17034&highlight=Outlook),here (http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=17034&highlight=Outlook),here (http://www.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=9457&highlight=Outlook)..... etc.

You know if your at a website, and you click their mailto:blah@blah.com link, and it opens your default email program, outlook express, or ms outlook, i want it to do that, but I want to make sure it's a default one on their computer, so i want a mailto: link maybe? I'm comfused [I'm not using a timer anymore]

Mail to: is part of the ooperating system of windows, it should always open the default mail program.

Try running a shell command with the mail to: line

eg.
in a dos window type mail to:yourself@home.com
and see what happens

You can use the ShellExecute API to cause the default email client application to load with a 'mailto' 'url', for example: 'mailto:someone@somedomain.com'.

ShellExecute has been discussed many times and I did a tutorial on it in Tutor's Corner a long time ago (including a mailto example).

Paul

Okay, I have two textboxes. One, has the user's email in it. The other, has information in it. When the second one gets full, I want it to email the contents to the email address in the first textbox. I would imagine it would be similar to something as follows. Please help me alter the code bellow to make it work.

If Len(Text2.Text) > 5000 Then
'Mail Code Here (Maybe Mailto:Text1.Text or something)
End If

*long sigh*

Did you see my post?

http://bbs.visualbasicforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11406&highlight=

^^That URL will teach you how to send e-mail....^^

Is it that complicated? =(

Actually, once you read that tutorial a couple of times, you'll notice that it's quite simple. You just have to understand the concept and what you're doing. You could use an Outlook session, which is much easier, but requires the user have Outlook installed and configured (not very likely).

Yeah, that's why I wanted to go with the mailto: default mailer. I don't understand the tutorial..or how to mod it a bit to make it take the email in the textbox, and send it.

The concept of sending mail via an SMTP server is more complex than launching the default mail client, but if you just wanted to automate a few mails or perhaps even a batch mail delviery it would be quicker, as it doesn't require any input from the user once its got the initial addresses and mail message etc...

ShellExecuting the default mail client is the simplest way forward I think.... read the several million posts which have been made on the subject recently.....

Hmm..I think instead of emailing the contents when it gets full, I'll have it save it in a notepad somewhere...I don't want the Save As Dialog to pop up, I want it to save where the user specified in the textbox, such as "C:/KKL.txt"

Okay. Thanks for alerting us about your decision.