send an email from my Qt application

[d_stranz]

If all you want to do is -send- an e-mail from your application, it is very easy to use QDesktopServices:

QString	strMailTo(  "mailto:someone@someAddress.com?subject='My E-mail example'&body=" );
strMailTo	+= "Hi!  This is the body of the e-mail";
bool bResult = QDesktopServices::openUrl( QUrl( strMailTo ) );

QString	strMailTo(  "mailto:someone@someAddress.com?subject='My E-mail example'&body=" );
strMailTo	+= "Hi!  This is the body of the e-mail";
bool bResult = QDesktopServices::openUrl( QUrl( strMailTo ) );

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The QUrl constructor will convert the "strMailTo" string into a proper URL (that is, replace spaces by %20%, and so forth). The Boolean result tells you whether the call succeeded or not.

Forget all this stuff about sockets, TCP, SMTP, and so on.

David