Question about email

digink · October 13th, 2009, 06:36 PM

Hey Imar,

For the life of me I could not get your code to work for sending out an email. I understood the code and it made perfect sense, but for some reason the way it was set up I kept getting errors on both my work PC and home PC which wouldn't allow me to send the email.

To get the code to work, I had to eliminate your instruction to insert code into the web config file and I just added these elements to the user control:

Dim mySmtpClient As New SmtpClient()
mySmtpClient.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"
mySmtpClient.Port = 587
mySmtpClient.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "YourPassword")
mySmtpClient.EnableSsl = True
mySmtpClient.Send(myMessage)

Now I am not sure if I was getting the errors because the code you specified didn't take into account that email requires SSL and a port (I tried adding the port to the webconfig) but it never worked until I deleted the section out of the webconfig and added that bit of extra code to the user control.

Do you think this is a reasonable alternative to your method? Is it any less secure since my email information will be sitting there?

Thanks again

Imar · October 14th, 2009, 03:08 PM

Hi there,

In my book I am referring to this code as well when using a server that requires SSL. Search my book's forum category here at p2p.wrox.com for EnableSsl and you find a few more threads about the topic.

I can't test right now, but could you combine this and web.config? That is, get server and user data from web.config and set the rest through code.

Otherwise, considering wrapping the user name and password values in properties that access the web.config and move them to the <appSettings /> element in web.config. Check out Chapter 18 for more details.

Cheers,

Imar

digink · October 14th, 2009, 03:39 PM

I will test it out at work today and see if I can move most of the sensitive date to the web.config and still get it to work. I'll get back to you.