Creating Your Own Online E-mail System in ASP.NET 2.0 - Dissecting the Key Techniques: Interface Design
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On the whole, there are two crucial parts in constructing the e-mail system: one is sending out the e-mails of different kinds, the other is profiling your mail server. To grasp the ideas in the two parts, you should acquaint yourself with the MAIL related API provided by the .NET 2.0 framework. Now let's look more closely at each part.
Sending E-mail
Here, we are merely interested in three kinds of mail (which in fact are the most commonly used), i.e. text format e-mails, HTML format e-mails, and those with attachments. Note that all these are done inside the Sender.aspx page.
1. Interface design
The following Figure 1 gives you the design time snapshot of the Sender.aspx page.
Figure 1-The design time snapshot of the Sender.aspx page
Since there is nothing peculiar here but the usual components for manipulating an e-mail, let's not chatter much about the controls but go on with the story.
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