Dear Ernest,
you are right that you can use the build in TCP/IP functions to write your own email client.
I and my collegues have never written a email client. We are windows user and we use either Outlook express or Outlook. Some of us use at home other ready to run software. So what we have to do are the following steps:
1. Search for the right documentation about email clients (RFC xxxx).
2. Read and understand the documentation.
3. Implement and test the client.
Maybe its only a three day job it would take him 32 hours. Writting programs costs about 80 - 90 EURO / h. So my own email client costs me about 2560 EURO. Costs me money in term of I don't get it from my customer. The internet developer toolkit co
sts me 655 EURO. So it is much cheaper to buy it than to build it.
Maybe you can decrease the cost to 40 EURO / h if you are single have not to feed six persons, but than it would be double the price of the toolkit. Or do you do it in your free time?
Waldemar
Waldemar
Using 7.1.1, 8.5.1, 8.6.1, 2009 on XP and RT
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