Hi all,
can we connect yahoo,msn mail accounts using Sockets.TcpClient?
I yes how to doi it?what port number I've to use?

My code is like this

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
' ReadMail("website url", "userid", "password")

End Sub

Function ReadMail(ByVal host As String, ByVal user As String, ByVal pass As String)
' initialise objects
Dim netstream As System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream
Dim thisResponse As String

Try
tcpC.Connect(host, 110)
Catch ex As Exception
Response.Write(ex.Message)
Response.End()
End Try

netstream = tcpC.GetStream()
thisResponse = GetResponse(netstream)

thisResponse = SendCommand(netstream, "user " & user & vbCrLf)

thisResponse = SendCommand(netstream, "pass " & pass & vbCrLf)

If Not Left(thisResponse, 4) = "-ERR" Then
Response.Write("Logged in OK <BR>")
Else
Response.Write("Error logging in, check your user details and try again<BR>")
Response.Write("<P>" & thisResponse & "</p>")
Response.End()
End If
End Sub

Function SendCommand(ByRef netstream As System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream, ByVal sToSend As String)
Dim bData() As Byte = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sToSend.ToCharArray)
netstream.Write(bData, 0, bData.Length())
Return GetResponse(netstream)
End Function


Function GetResponse(ByRef netstream As System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream)
Dim bytes(tcpC.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte
Dim ret As Integer = netstream.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)

Dim returndata As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)
Return returndata
End Function

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It's working for my companys mail id (mailserver is connected in LAN)..if i use yahoo userid and password..its showing message

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it


How to do this?


Surya

I believe yahoo and msn expose API's for you to be able to connect to their services but you would actually have to get the documentation from their site to figure out how to do it.

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Iam not specific to yahoo or msn...
Actuallly i've to connect another website(its just like any other groups) by providing uid and pwd from my .net page..and to import all the contacts from mycontacts page to display in a .net page.

can i achieve this by tcp ?
or is there any alternative for that.

Your trying to connect to a mail server? You should be able to connect to it using TCP but I am not 100% sure about it. Does the website you are connecting to expose some sort of API you can work through?

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