Send e-mail on error

robochrish · April 9th, 2013, 09:43 AM

Hi Imar,
I wonder if you can help me.
I have set up a contact page and I have it so that it sends the results to an e-mail address that is located in web.config file.
This uses the Global.asax to send the e-mail.
I was wondering if you could tell me how I can set it up so that the contact form sends an e-mail to address 1 whilst the error reports go to email2.

I tried adding a key in web.config called"ErrorAddress" and changing the information in global.asax so that it says:

Code:

Dim myMessage As MailMessage = New MailMessage(AppConfiguration.FromAddress, AppConfiguration.ErrorAddress, mailSubject, message)

but this didn't work.

Could you help please?
Thank you

Imar · April 9th, 2013, 09:52 AM

Hi there,

>> I tried adding a key in web.config called"ErrorAddress" and changing the information in global.asax so that it says:

Did you also add the property to the AppConfiguration class that reads the web.config file? You need one for each value you want to read from the web.config, and you need to add it manually (there's no magic to make that work).

You could bypass AppConfiguration and access AppSettings directly, but I would not recommend that.

>> This uses the Global.asax to send the e-mail.

Not sure I get that. In the Planet Wrox website, Global.asax is only used for error messages, not for the contact form.

Cheers,

Imar

robochrish · April 9th, 2013, 10:06 AM

Hi Imar,
Sorry for the confusion. Please ignore what I said about global.asax sending the e-mail. I meant the error email not the contact one.
I'm sure I tried what you are describing, but just to clarify should I change AppConfiguration.ToAddress within the AppCofiguration class to AppConfiguration.ErrorAddress and then go into we.config and add the Key within <AppSettings> called ErrorAddress and set the value to the correct e-mail address?

robochrish · April 9th, 2013, 10:14 AM

Actually I've sorted it now,
Thank you Imar, I had forgotten to add it to the AppConfiguration.vb file.
I am going between two projects at the same time, so I get a little confused :p

Imar · April 9th, 2013, 10:30 AM

Glad you figured it out.

>> just to clarify should I change AppConfiguration.ToAddress within the AppCofiguration class to AppConfiguration.ErrorAddress and then go into we.config and add the Key within <AppSettings> called ErrorAddress and set the value to the correct e-mail address?

And yes, that's the way to do it. The AppConfiguration class has been introduced to wrap the settings in web.config in smarter, type-safe properties. You don't have to do it and you could access web.config directly, but I find it a lot easier to have a property in AppConfiguration for each of my appSettings elements in web.config.

Hope this clarifies things even further.

Cheers,

Imar

robochrish · April 9th, 2013, 10:32 AM

it does, thank you ^_^