Smtp protcol

bivek · January 22nd, 2010, 12:05 PM

Hey Imar,

How are you? I have a problem comming straight out of the book regarding the contact us page from chapter 9. how do we setup the smtp setting if we have email provider like hotmail, gmail etc. i tried smtp.hotmail.com but it says the Remote host cannont be found.

your help is much appreciated

Imar · January 22nd, 2010, 02:58 PM

Hi there,

Take a look here: http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=505

I don't know Hotmail's SMTP server, but I am pretty sure bing.com knows it (if SMTP is available with hotmail).

Cheers,

Imar

bivek · January 25th, 2010, 06:53 PM

Hello Imar,

Thanks for your help. I tired using my gmail account for contact us page.

the smtp setting is smtp.gmail.com in the web config file....i get this error after i do it...

the mail setting looks like this

<mailSettings>
<smtp from="[email protected]">
<network host="smtp.gmail.com" password="*******" userName="[email protected]" />
</smtp>
</mailSettings>

i get the following error

The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. 22sm283886qyk.14

The code that we can find in your book, does it support settings for gmail..if not what email client you reccomend i should use.

Thank you
Birendra chand

Imar · January 26th, 2010, 03:20 AM

Isn't that described exactly in the article I linked to?

Quote:

Configure the web.config file and set up a mail server with a specified port number, user name and password.
Handle the SendingMail event that the Login controls fire and execute the following steps:
1. Create your own instance of the SmtpClient
2. Set EnableSsl to true
3. Send the message (which you can access using e.Message) with your own SmtpClient
4. Cancel the original message.

So you need to add a port number in web.config and set EnableSsl to true...

Together with the article, you should be able to use GMail (or any other SMTP server) with the code in the book.

Cheers,

Imar
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