Mail not working properly

jgoddard · December 12th, 2004, 02:27 PM

Hi there,

I am using .net Framework 1.1. I am trying to send email using vb.net(ASP.net). Using the web.mail namespace, which sends the mail fine. The problem is even though the mail gets sent, I get an error "Thread was being aborted" which means if I try email in a try...catch statement some of my code after the email code does not execute.

What is causing this error? I've tried everywhere and can't seem to find the answer, please help!

Copy of code
Try
'This works fine
objEmail = New MailMessage
            objEmail.To = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("adminEMail")
            objEmail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal
            objEmail.Subject = Subject
            objEmail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
            objEmail.Body = Message
        objEmail.From = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("adminEMail")
        SmtpMail.SmtpServer = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("eMailServer")
        SmtpMail.Send(objEmail)

'Exception gets thrown when try to send mail
'Any code I put here will not execute because of exception being thrown

Catch ex1 as exception
'This is where I catch the "Thread was...." error
end try

Imar · December 12th, 2004, 02:31 PM

Are you redirecting *after* you send the e-mail?

The Redirect method can cause a ThreadAbortion error....

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

jgoddard · December 13th, 2004, 02:18 AM

Yes, I am redirecting after the email. What can I do to stop that exception then?

Imar · December 15th, 2004, 07:23 AM

Hi Justin,

Sorry for the late response.

Redirecting can throw a ThreadAbortException. This is a known issue, and is documented here: http://support.microsoft.com/default...5BLN%5D;312629

You can code around this problem with this code:

Code:

try
{
  // Some Code
  Response.Redirect("MyPage.aspx");
}
catch (System.Threading.ThreadAbortException)
{
  // Ignore. This is not really a problem. 
  // See KB article listed earlier
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
  // Catch other errors here
}

HtH,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.