HI to All.

When the link "sign up for a new account at planet wrox" is clicked the user is taken to the create user wizard.

The smtp mail server is not configured in the computer, so after completing the wizard the page gives yellow screen of death "The remote name could not be resolved smtp.planetwrox.com"
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

In case customErrors mode="On" in the web.config file it redirects to the default error page.

Although the user is successfully created and he can log on next time. Obviously this error occurs as the website tries to send an e-mail to the user.

Instead, I want that it should just give a confirmation that the "user successfully created" after pressing the create button and not try to send mail.

How to implement this? I tried finding the setting in web.config and global.asax.

Any help and suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

I found a solution to implement this functionality by modifying the web.config file as under:

<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory" from="Your Name &lt;[email protected]&gt;">
<specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="D:\emails"/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>

inside the system.net settings

This displays the "Complete" step of create user wizard and saves the email in local folder "D:\emails" instead of sending them by smtp.

If any other method kindly let me know.

Thanks.

Hi there,

Do you want no e-mail at all? Or do you want to work around the issue with the wrong mail server and error message? In the former case, remove the MailDefinition element from the CreateUserWizard. In the latter case, configure an appropriate mail server as discussed on page 308 and further.

Cheers,

Imar

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