Hi friends,
I have written a simple application to send mail using asp.net. Before describing my codeing problem, I want to ask somthing related to the SmtpMail.Send() method.

When we create an object of the MailMessage class, then why there is no any property for password. Without password how one can access the mail acount. Pls tell me what is the exact background of this method.

Now I am not able to send mail using my asp.net application. My code is:

MailMessage objMailMsg = new MailMessage();
objMailMsg.From = txtFrom.Text.Trim();
objMailMsg.To = txtTo.Text.Trim();
objMailMsg.Subject = txtSubject.Text.Trim();
objMailMsg.Body = txtName.Text + ", " + txtComments.Text;
try
{
SmtpMail.Send(objMailMsg);
Response.Write("Your mail has been send successfully");
}
catch(Exception exc)
{
Response.Write("Send fail: " + exc.ToString());
}

I shows error message. Pls tell me that Is there any special settings for this type of applications
means any setting for POP3 server or SMTP server.
pls give me a proper solution.......

Anujrathi,
     Before you call SmtpMail.Send you need to setup a mail server for the script to access.

                SmtpMail.SmtpServer = mail.domain.com;

As far as needing a username and password I THINK that as long as you send mail within the same domain you dont need to provide credentials. For example, if the recipient is [email protected] and i have the sender as [email protected] this should freely pass through your mail server. (I do it with a few of my Intranet applications and our SMTP server requires authenticaion and I never supply it any credentials.)

HtH

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