Hey, im not sure if theres a technical 'term' for this, but on some social networking sites there is a 'invite your friends' page, which allows you to type your email address, and password, and send a generic invite email to everyone in the users contacts list. can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial / old forum post that might help me learn how to do this please?
i am using asp.net.
Basically you need to use SmtpClient to send your emails, and have a template of the email you want to send. don't know what else can be told about it.
Create a page with multiple text boxes and generic invite message text box.
On Button click do this
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(txtFrom.Text, txtTo.Text, txtSubject.Text,
txtInvite.Text); //You can interate through all text boses to reach to a final TO list
SmtpClient emailClient = new SmtpClient(txtSMTPServer.Text);
System.Net.NetworkCredential SMTPUserInfo =
new System.Net.NetworkCredential(<GetUserFromConfig>, <GetPasswordFromConfig>);
emailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
emailClient.Credentials = SMTPUserInfo;
emailClient.Send(message);
There are different variants here, like Authentication, SMTP settings etc. For that, you will have to understand them first, so here are two links which should help you out
