What programing languages can be used to send emails

Question

I am about to start writing a program that will have a GUI interface with the user that prompts for a number between 1-100. The program then emails me that number(this program would be running on an unknown users computer).

I am unable to decide what programing language to use for such a project. Can anyone suggest a language that is able to do GUI, and send emails from someone elses computer? (Preferable be able to save this program as a .exe or some single file that can be run from their computer. Also would prefer a link as to how to email in that language, but I am fine doing that research myself, just unsure what language to start researching in. If I left anything out please leave a comment asking for clarification. Thanks for any help I can get.

Do you have any particular platform(s) in mind? Desktop, mobile, wearable, etc? Any specific operating systems you hope this will run on? — Tom Harrington, Mar 18 '14 at 19:03
Well, any Turing complete, I assume, as long as it provides the network access library. — Audrius Meškauskas, Mar 18 '14 at 19:08
[Sending email in .NET through Gmail](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32260/sending-email-in-net-through-gmail). Simple and will run on Windows 7 if they have NET framework. — Danny, Mar 18 '14 at 19:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 19:09

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Use C# cus you know it's awesome (heavily biased answer) and here's the code

  private bool sendMsg (string from, string to, string subject , string messageBody)
    {
         MailMessage message = null;
         try
         {
            message = new MailMessage(from, to);
            using (message)  {
            message.Subject = subject;
            //message.CC.Add(CCemailAddress);
            message.Body = messageBody;
            message.IsBodyHtml = false;
            SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp.outlook.com", 587);
            client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(from, "Sending Accounts Password");
            client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
            client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
            client.EnableSsl = true; //enable SSL
            client.Send(message);
            client.Dispose();
         }
        }
        catch 
        {
            return false;
        }
         message.Dispose();
         return true;
    }

answered Mar 18 '14 at 19:09

fuzzybear

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how do you import the MailMessage library and the SmptClient – Lain Mar 21 '14 at 20:04
Never mind, figured it out. But The code always seems to return false, any ideas? – Lain Mar 21 '14 at 20:24
put a catch( Exception ex ) and var = ex; check the return code – fuzzybear Mar 21 '14 at 22:28
I did that it gives me a n authorization error – Lain Mar 21 '14 at 22:33
not authorised, are u authed to use their SMTP ? and stupid question , u changed the line client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(from, "Sending Accounts Password"); ??? – fuzzybear Mar 21 '14 at 22:36

What programing languages can be used to send emails

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