What caused the Socket Exception while sending email from Console application?

Question

I\'m trying to write a basic console app that will send an email. The problem is that I keep getting the Socket exception:

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Answer 1

I changed to MailKit.Net.Smtp.SmtpClient. It gave better errors and I was able to get the emails to work.

using MimeKit;
using MailKit.Net.Smtp;
using System.Net;

using (var client = new SmtpClient())
    {
        client.Connect
            (
                Context.Settings.SMTPServer,
                Convert.ToInt32(Context.Settings.SMTPPort),
                MailKit.Security.SecureSocketOptions.None
            );

        //ignore ssl errors
        client.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = (sender, certificate, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true;

        // Note: only needed if the SMTP server requires authentication
        if (Context.Settings.SMTPAuthenticate)
        {

            client.Authenticate
                (
                        new NetworkCredential
                        (
                            Context.Settings.SMTPUserName,
                            Context.Settings.SMTPPassword,
                            Context.Settings.SMTPDomain
                        )
                );
        }


        await client.SendAsync(message);
        client.Disconnect(true);

        }