New problem with Chapter 16

happyandstable · March 11th, 2012, 04:41 PM

When doing the automatic email response in the Sending Confirmation E-Mail with CreateUserWizard I kept getting an error message.

Now my Demo Email page works just fine so what is the diff?

I looked at your web.config file and notice this :

Code:

    <mailSettings>
      <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory" from="Planet Wrox &lt;[email protected]&gt;">
        <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\TempMail"/>
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>

How would that work for me?? I have no access to the Planet Wrox mail server even if there is one and there is no "C:\TempMail" folder on my C drive.

The book mentions this:

Code:

    <mailSettings>
      <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory" from="[email protected]">
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>

no mention what so ever about:

Code:

<specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\TempMail"/>

what would be the correct usage for my setup? would like to see it work the way it was intended i know I can do the event route explained in the book but still want to see it work the way stated in the try it out

So where do I go from here Imar? Thanks in advance

Imar · March 12th, 2012, 03:28 AM

Hi there,

Quote:

How would that work for me?? I have no access to the Planet Wrox mail server even if there is one and there is no "C:\TempMail" folder on my C drive.

Quote:

no mention what so ever about: <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\TempMail"/>

It *is* described in the book. Check out page 318 that shows you how to configure this and explains you need to create the folder first.

When you use this option, e-mail is never really sent over the network; instead .eml message files are simply dropped in this folder.

Using @PlanetWrox.com doesn't affect anything; it's jsust a (random) from address. In most cases that will just work, although some SMTP servers check if the From address is really from a domain they manage and reject the message if it isn't.

Hope this helps,

Imar