Can I send emails with Actionscript 3.0, or do I need to use PHP?

Question

i wanted to know that using actionscript, is it possible to send email and create a front end in flashbuilder 4(flex), everywhere i see php being used for mails, is it possible?

Answer 1

best practice would be to create a server side service to handle sending the email and having the Flex frontend communicate with that service.

There is however a library for as3 called as3maillib that you might want to checkout. I personally would recommend keeping it server side.

Answer 2

Although the common practice is to send email using server side scripts, it is possible also in plain as3 using socket connections. There are even some libraries for this, like as3maillib and SMTP Mailer.

Edit: The SMTP Mailer page seems to be down at the time of writing, but you can see it through google cache...