Messaging

[Terry Orzechowski]

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>I need to build a internal messaging service without
>using SMTP.
>The customer wants it to opperate like internal email but
>messages would added and sent using webforms.
>
>The messages would be stored on a SQL2000 db.
>The users would access an inbox and respond back to one
>account only.
>The admin account would have the option of sending to
>single, group or all users.
>I have never done anything like this so suggestion would
>be appreciated.
>
>Thanks Ron
>.
>

Well Ron it sounds like you just have a database
application here that stores messages? Each time a user
logs in you query the database for messages that are for
that user and display the messages that are for them in
accordance with whatever business rules you have.

[Kevin Spencer]

Is there some reason why you don't want to use SMTP? SMTP is a protocol
designed for messaging. You can certainly write a web interface to an SMTP
or POP3 server using WebForms.

HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
Internet Developer
[url]http://www.takempis.com[/url]
Big things are made up of
lots of Little things.

"ron" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:006501c33d86$063626b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

> Hi,
> I need to build a internal messaging service without
> using SMTP.
> The customer wants it to opperate like internal email but
> messages would added and sent using webforms.
>
> The messages would be stored on a SQL2000 db.
> The users would access an inbox and respond back to one
> account only.
> The admin account would have the option of sending to
> single, group or all users.
> I have never done anything like this so suggestion would
> be appreciated.
>
> Thanks Ron