Problems sending e-mail in web app

Question

I have been trying for 2 days to get my ASP.NET webforms application to send an e-mail.

I have tried this using both outlook and gmail. I got the smtp information for bo

Answer 1

This code should work fine for you

protected void SendEmail()
{
    string EmailAddress = "myemail@gmail.com";
    MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage(EmailAddress, EmailAddress);
    mailMessage.Subject = "This is a test email";
    mailMessage.Body = "This is a test email. Please reply if you receive it.";

    SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
    smtpClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
    smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
    smtpClient.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
    smtpClient.Port = 587;

    smtpClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential()
    {
        UserName = EmailAddress,
        Password = "password"
    };
    smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
    smtpClient.Send(mailMessage);
}

You'll need to set the delivery mode otherwise gmail will return an error

EDIT:

Throwing an 'using' around 'MailMessage' might also be a smart thing to do