Chapter 9

havardoj · January 24th, 2009, 01:22 PM

Hi,

I couldn't find the passwords I needed when I worked my way through chapter 9, so I just continued even though I couldn't send any mails at that time.

Now I have started on chapter 10, and my passwords have arrived from my ISP, but I am not sure they allow me to send emails from web applications?

I get a yellow triangle in the bottom left corner of the IE7-window, and it says something like this: "sys.webforms.pagerequestmanagerservererrorexcepti on: failure sending mail."

It seems as if IIS7 can be configured to handle emails from web apps, it also seems as if the server can store the emails as files in a specified directory. I thought that was an alternativ, because then the contact page would think the mail has been sent? Am I right?
But I haven't found out how to make it work....

And doesn't VWD use an other web server when viewing the pages?

Hmmm... I gues what I am trying to ask, is this: If my ISP doesn't allow me to send email from my asp.net application, does it exist an alternative, so that I can fool my application into thinking the mail has been sent?

Imar · January 24th, 2009, 01:27 PM

Hi there,

Does your ISP allow you to send mail from a standard mail program like Outlook? If so, there's a fair chance things will work fine. Take a look at page 309 to see how to configure the web.config file for sending e-mail.

Also, try removing the UpdatePanel from the contact form User Control so you get better error messages....

And yes, VWD uses the built-in web development server by default. Chapter 18 shows you how to deploy to IIS....

Imar

havardoj · January 24th, 2009, 06:37 PM

Hi again Imar,

And once again, thanks for quick answering!
I must admit I hoped that you could pinpoint what I had done wrong, and present me with the solution. Because I felt that I had followed you examples 100%.

But that was actuallly a "mistake". My ISP has been hit extra hard with spam, one result is that they have blocked port 25. That was one thing.
The other thing was that they are not very clear on what to use as a username for this and that purpose. When logging in one place, the username is my email address, some other place it is a "strange" string.

So I forced myself to open the book at page 309 and try once again to create that simple email application.
And it worked!

Now I can progress happily, thanks for that!

Imar · January 24th, 2009, 07:15 PM

Great; glad it's working now...

Imar