Hi all,
This is Hari,
             In my application I need to generate a report for different people and send it through mail as attachment, and my approach to this task is I will generate a report for single person ,And send it to his Mail ID and then I will delete the report and generates next person’s report and send it.
             To send the report I am using SMTP server. I am able to send the mails if all the mail ids are correct, if the mail id of a person is incorrect in between I am able to handle the exception but I am not able to delete the report of that person the error I am getting is "Internal system error. Access to the path.... is denied."Even I am not able to delete the file manually .How can I come out of this please help me.



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I may be off here but why don't you check the mail id first before you create the report? Otherwise, you should be able to delete the file in the Finally of your Try/Catch. If you can't delete a file it probably has to do with your permissions in that directory.

It sounds like the problem is that you have a class handling I/O on the file that is open when the error occurs.

You need to cleanup things before you try to delete the file. Put calls to .Close() methods and such in the finally block of the t/c/f and do the file deletion after that (could be in the finally{} as well). That way, even if the mail process fails, everything else will still happen without problems.

Also, you could wrap the mailing portion of the code in its own t/c/f.

-Peter

Thanks for your replays,
     The problem is arising only when the email id is wrong ..
That means Smtpmail.send() method of my code is issuing lock on the file as the exception raised it is not releasing the lock I want know how to dispose MailMessage object in .Net 1.1
Please help me…….


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