Email question...

iceman90289 · August 25th, 2009, 03:58 PM

hi all, long time no see.

im making a website and cant get the email to send from my site to my dads email.

using System.Net.Mail

Code:

protectedvoid btnSend_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string Email, Name, Message, Subject;
Email = tbEmail.Text;
Name = tbContact.Text;
Message = tbMessage.Text;
Subject = Name + " has contacted you via AltaLomaTax.com!";
string message = Name + "(" + Email + ") " + "has sent the following message to you:\n" + Message;
SmtpClient mailClient = newSmtpClient();
mailClient.EnableSsl = true;
mailClient.Send(myemail, hisemail, Subject, message);
}

iceman90289 · August 25th, 2009, 03:59 PM

the following doesnt generate any errors, but i notice that the email doesnt end up in anyone's inbox.

Imar · August 25th, 2009, 04:04 PM

>> mailClient.Send(myemail, hisemail, Subject, message);

You're never assigning a value to variables like myemail and hisemail......

Imar

iceman90289 · August 26th, 2009, 12:42 AM

sorry i should have mentioned that... when i copy+pasted the code here i had string literals (the one sending was my gmail and the one recieving was my yahoo)

Imar · August 26th, 2009, 04:18 AM

Maybe the mail ends up in the junk folder?

Cheers,

Imar

gbianchi · August 26th, 2009, 08:28 AM

Or you have not set up the SMTP properly?

iceman90289 · August 28th, 2009, 10:31 PM

hello guys, sorry it took so long to get back on

the email didnt show up in the junk folder and i checked the smtp info from google.com

also, i have revised the code a little bit more. here is what i have now:

Code:

MailMessage mailObj = newMailMessage();
mailObj.Body = message;
mailObj.IsBodyHtml = true;
mailObj.Subject = Subject;
mailObj.To.Add("i put my yahoo adress here");
mailObj.To.Add("this is my hotmail adress");
mailObj.To.Add("sending it to my gmail");
mailObj.From = newMailAddress("i put my gmail adress here");
 
SmtpClient mailClient = newSmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");
mailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
mailClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("mygmailemail", "mypassword");
mailClient.EnableSsl = true;
mailClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
mailClient.Port = 465; // can be one of two values
mailClient.Send(mailObj);

Imar · August 29th, 2009, 03:45 AM

Hi there,

Your code looks fine. I just copied and pasted in one of my projects and I could send e-mail using GMail's SMTP server. So, it must be something else.

Have you tried port 587 instead of 465? Or maybe something on your network is blocking your e-mail? E.g. a firewall?

Otherwise, I don't know what to suggest. This is valid code...

Cheers,

Imar

iceman90289 · August 29th, 2009, 09:43 AM

i tried both ports, i even added them to my firewall. i guess i'll just have to wait till i get these on a server.

iceman90289 · August 29th, 2009, 09:44 AM

thanks again Imar