Passing variable for User Name when sending email

bpl · May 17th, 2013, 11:55 AM

Chapter 9 includes examples to send email. In these examples User Name hard coded in the web.config file in the <system.net> element:
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="Your Name @lt;[email protected]@gt;"> <network host="smtp.yourprovider.com" />
</smtp>
</mailsettings>
</system.net>

Is it posible to modify this example not include the address of SMTP server globally in the web.config, instead include it inside web page and make User Name as variable to let it be dymamically changed depends on who currently login to the website? For example when User Name extracted for the current user from Active Directory?

Imar · May 18th, 2013, 07:39 AM

Hi there,

The from attribute in the web.config only serves as a default / fallback for cases where you don't specify one in code. Take a look at the example on page 319 and you'll see something like this:

Code:

myMessage.From = New MailAddress("[email protected]", "Sender Name")

Replace the name and address with your own data to make this dynamic.

Not sure why you would want to change the SMTP server (used to send the messages) based on the user, but you can do it by specifying an alternative server when constructing the SmtpClient:

Code:

Dim mySmtpClient As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient("your.host.here")

Hope this helps,

Imar

bpl · May 21st, 2013, 11:38 AM

Thank you Imar. I did not pay attention that user name from code on page 319 can override user name from web.config. Of course, SMTP Server address from web.config I am not going to change.