Why do I get “'property cannot be assigned” when sending an SMTP email?

Question

I can\'t understand why this code is not working. I get an error saying property can not be assigned

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
SmtpClient client          


        

Answer 1

This just worked for me as of March 2017. Started with solution from above "Finally got working :)" which didn't work at first.

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
client.Port =  587;
client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
client.EnableSsl = true;
client.Timeout = 10000;
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("<me>@gmail.com", "<my pw>");
MailMessage mm = new MailMessage(from_addr_text, to_addr_text, msg_subject, msg_body);
mm.BodyEncoding = UTF8Encoding.UTF8;
mm.DeliveryNotificationOptions = DeliveryNotificationOptions.OnFailure;

client.Send(mm);

Answer 2

This is how it works for me. Hope you find it useful

MailMessage objeto_mail = new MailMessage();
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
client.Port = 25;
client.Host = "smtp.internal.mycompany.com";
client.Timeout = 10000;
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("user", "Password");
objeto_mail.From = new MailAddress("from@server.com");
objeto_mail.To.Add(new MailAddress("to@server.com"));
objeto_mail.Subject = "Password Recover";
objeto_mail.Body = "Message";
client.Send(objeto_mail);

Answer 3

this would work too..

string your_id = "your_id@gmail.com";
string your_password = "password";
try
{
   SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient
   {
     Host = "smtp.gmail.com",
     Port = 587,
     EnableSsl = true,
     DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
     Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(your_id, your_password),
     Timeout = 10000,
   };
   MailMessage mm = new MailMessage(your_iD, "recepient@gmail.com", "subject", "body");
   client.Send(mm);
   Console.WriteLine("Email Sent");
 }
 catch (Exception e)
 {
   Console.WriteLine("Could not end email\n\n"+e.ToString());
 }

Answer 4

This answer features:

• Using 'using' whenever possible (IDisposable interfaces)
• Using Object initializers
• Async Programming
• Extract SmtpConfig to external class (adjust it to your needs)

Here's the extracted code:

    public async Task SendAsync(string subject, string body, string to)
    {
        using (var message = new MailMessage(smtpConfig.FromAddress, to)
        {
            Subject = subject,
            Body = body,
            IsBodyHtml = true
        })
        {
            using (var client = new SmtpClient()
            {
                Port = smtpConfig.Port,
                DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false,
                Host = smtpConfig.Host,
                Credentials = new NetworkCredential(smtpConfig.User, smtpConfig.Password),
            })
            {
                await client.SendMailAsync(message);
            }
        }                                     
    }

Class SmtpConfig:

public class SmtpConfig
{
    public string Host { get; set; }
    public string User { get; set; }
    public string Password { get; set; }
    public int Port { get; set; }
    public string FromAddress { get; set; }
}

Answer 5

Initialize the MailMessage with sender and reciever's email addresses. It should be something like

string from = "codeforwin@gmail.com";  //Senders email   
string to = "reciever@gmail.com";  //Receiver's email  
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage(from, to); 

Read the full code snippet of how to send emails in c#

Answer 6

First go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and make Allow less secure apps true.

Then use the below code. This below code will work only if your from email address is from gmail.

static void SendEmail()
    {
        string mailBodyhtml =
            "<p>some text here</p>";
        var msg = new MailMessage("from@gmail.com", "to1@gmail.com", "Hello", mailBodyhtml);
        msg.To.Add("to2@gmail.com");
        msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
        var smtpClient = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587); //**if your from email address is "from@hotmail.com" then host should be "smtp.hotmail.com"**
        smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
        smtpClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("from@gmail.com", "password");
        smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
        smtpClient.Send(msg);
        Console.WriteLine("Email Sent Successfully");
    }