Anyone Help:

I have written a web app that allows a client to request his/her forgotten password to be sent from the server via email. Works fine. However, I find that the email is not sent until the user quits the session (logoffs the app).

Does anyone know how I can force the email to be sent without requiring the user to logoff?

Here's the VB code:

Dim msg as new MailMessage(sAppEmailAdr, sUserEmailAdr)
msg.isBodyHtml = False
msg.Body = "Your password is: " & _sUserPassword
msg.Subject = "Forgotten password"
Dim Smtp as new SmtpClient
Smtp.Send(msg)

Thanks.

VV

If they have forgotten their password, isn't it safe to assume that they aren't logged on?

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This behavior doesn't make any sense. As long as the code completes execution, the mail should be sent. What evidence can you provide that supports this possible behavior?

-Peter

dparsons and Peter:

1. The user is in the process of logging in. I allow an anonymous attempt to login. Anyone who goes to the website is presented with a login page on which he/she can either provide login info, or press the "Forgot my password" link to a page that request info and then sends the email.

If you provide me with your email address I will add you to the database and provide you with the link and then you can see for yourself how this works. The server folks tell me that the email IS sent.

Send your email address to my email which is: [email protected].

VV

Victor, I experience no problems with this. Using the information and instructions you provided me; after I press the email button and switch back to my Gmail account, the email is already sitting there waiting for me with my password. (E.g. the email arrives almost instanaeously)

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dparsons:

Amazing! I tried it again and it works without having to logoff.

How many times in your profesisonal life does a problem just go away?

The only possible explanation I can think of is that I spent a lot
of time on the telephone with my email provider tracing this thing.
I don't know what all they did in the process. Perhaps there was
a glitch of some kind that was inadvertantly fixed. Whatever...
I can lay this one to rest.

Thanks

VV


Thanks for your help.
VV

How many times in your profesisonal life does a problem just go away?

Never. Computers don't fix themselves. What *might* have been happening is that the SMTP server that you are mailing through was spooling the email for some reason and then it eventually was sent. This would give the effect of the mail only being sent after the user logged off as you would have to log off then go check your email, etc.

However, as Peter pointed out, if the code is executed and there are no errors, that email will be sent.

Glad everything is working for you.

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