Actually, you CAN send email silently. You can send email from any device capable of an outbound TCP connection on the SMTP port.
You can even send it as coming from the user's account. Or, you can pretend to be Obama, or your favorite rock star. You just can't get the built-in email application to do it for you, but Java libraries and code examples are available. And you may not be able to get the user's preferred mail server to do it for you without access to his account credentials. The only reason phones don't make good spam platforms is that there are so many better ones out there, with better network connectivity. You can forge fake emails manually, with no email software required, just a telnet client. There are some barriers in place these days, but since most email traffic is spam, obviously the barriers aren't high enough. On Apr 6, 6:25 am, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > , for such a device a lack of this > > > functionality is unacceptable =( > > You do realise the splendid Spam platform they would have created if > they allowed to send email programmatically without the user > noticing ? > 40 000 000 Android handsets in 2012 :D > > If you want to send email in the background, you could simply send to > a webservice the content of your email + attachments and let the > server do the email sending. > > Yahel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
