Hello
I am trying to learn these things from books so please excuse my lack of proper education.

In this book that I am reading it tells me to make sure IIS Default SMTP Virtual Server is running. Then I need to go to Access -> Relay Restriction and add 127.0.0.1 as IP Address Mask so my localhost has access Granted.

I tried the book code:
Imports System.Web.Mail

Private Sub SendEmail(ByVal ToAddress As String )
        Dim msg As MailMessage
        msg.From = "[email protected]"
        msg.To = ToAddress
        msg.Subject = "Topic"
        msg.Body = "Body Message"
        SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost"
        SmtpMail.Send(msg)

    End Sub

Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)Handles Button2.Click
              Try
 Me.SendEmail(txtEmail.Text)
Catch ex as Exception
Response.Write("Email Failed")
End Try

    End Sub


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Of course this doesn't run. I get "Email Failed".

The msg.From is valid and I am getting and able to send email from that account.

What step am I missing?

Thank you.

Try using the IP address or the computer name instead of localhost.

Hello stu9820,
I tried both computer name and ip address and the smtpmail.send won't run.

Make sure SMTP is running :) and then try SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "127.0.0.1"

SMTP is running and I already tried SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "127.0.0.1"

The only thing I didn't mention is that the server is domain controller. Will this affect smtp?????

I don't think it would affect SMTP...

Do you have a firewall?

No firewall

The msg.From can be any email address right? or does my IIS Default SMTP Virtual Server must have this email address configured??????

Shouldn't be the email address....