Chapter 24: SMTP and MIME Support in ATL Server

Overview

ATL SERVER PROVIDES SUPPORT for sending Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)-encoded e-mail using the SMTP protocol. This feature can be very useful in a Web application where you need to send a confirmation back to the user .

In this chapter you ll learn how to use this feature to manage connections to SMTP servers and send e-mail. You ll be able to send both regular e-mail and e-mail with attachments. There are numerous ways you can use this feature in your applications ”user confirmation and logging are just a couple common ones that come to mind.

To use the sample code in this chapter, you ll need to have access to an SMTP server. If you re using IIS, you can simply configure the virtual SMTP service that s installed with IIS to work in your domain.

Note  

Unlike most other ATL Server functionality, SMTP support doesn t require that IIS be enabled.