Chapter 9 validating user input

crossfire19 · December 10th, 2013, 10:16 PM

Hello I am having a few issues with the last try it out section of chapter 9.
I am getting this error
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 92.242.140.2:995

I did have a couple errors prior to that but managed to fix them. Here is the code that I have which is exactly the same from the book

C# code
protected void SendButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Page.IsValid)
{
string fileName = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/ContactForm.txt");
string mailBody = File.ReadAllText(fileName);

mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##Name##", Name.Text);
mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##Email##", EmailAddress.Text);
mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##HomePhone##", PhoneHome.Text);
mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##BusinessPhone##", PhoneBusiness.Text);
mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##Comments##", Comments.Text);

MailMessage myMessage = new MailMessage();
myMessage.Subject = "Response from web site";
myMessage.Body = mailBody;

myMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "Stephen Brown");
myMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]", "Stephen Brown"));

SmtpClient mySmtpClient = new SmtpClient();
mySmtpClient.Send(myMessage);

Message.Visible = true;
FormTable.Visible = false;
}
}

web.config code

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>
<system.web>
<pages theme="Monochrome">
<controls>
<add tagPrefix="Wrox" tagName="Banner" src="~/Controls/Banner.ascx"/>
</controls>
</pages>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"/>
</system.web>
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="Stephen Brown <[email protected]>">
<network enableSsl="true" userName="[email protected]" host="outgoing.gmail.com "/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>
</configuration>

thanks for any help.
I also did try changing outgoing.gmail.com to stmp.gmail.com which actually gave me this error
Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed.

Imar · December 11th, 2013, 05:12 AM

Hi there,

For Gmail you need something like this:

Code:

<network enableSsl="true" host="smtp.gmail.com" password="Password"
userName="[email protected]" port="587" />

Also note: it's SMTP, not STMP.

Cheers,

Imar

crossfire19 · December 11th, 2013, 10:39 PM

Hey thanks a lot it worked, I think that it was just the port that I had an issue with. So what if I wanted to set it up for different emails, such as yahoo, because I tried using yahoo mail, and wasn't able to figure it out or what port number to use. Is the code pretty much the same, just with a different number

thanks

Imar · December 12th, 2013, 02:52 AM

Yahoo would look like this:

Code:

<network host="smtp.mail.yahoo.com" password="Password"
  userName="[email protected]" />

Note that you (usually) use different from addresses (such as @yahoo or @gmail) even though you use a single SMTP server.

Cheers,

Imar

crossfire19 · December 13th, 2013, 11:10 PM

Hey thanks a lot, everything works