Contact Form Website hosting

crossfire19 · May 21st, 2015, 06:46 PM

I have a contact form on my website, that when filled out the information is suppose to be sent to my email. It works fine on the localhost, but when on the server I get this error.

An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 64.233.180.109:587

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.

Exception Details: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 64.233.180.109:587

Source Error:

Line 42:
Line 43: SmtpClient mySmtpClient = new SmtpClient();
Line 44: mySmtpClient.Send(myMessage);
Line 45:

I have tried disabling my firewall, and my antivirus software. I am trying to get it to go to my gmail account using port 587. I also went into my firewall and enabled that port number with my domain address, which is www.portfoliobrown.com.

Here is a copy of my back end coding in C#

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;
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

}

So I am not sure where else to go I tried to google some answers, but couldn't fine what I was really looking for. Found some people with the same error, but not exactly the same situation as I have.

Thanks a lot for any help
Stephen

Imar · May 22nd, 2015, 04:36 PM

Hi there,

Take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...access-permiss for some trouble shooting tips.

It seems like a firewall issue either on your end or on the SMTP server's side. You'll need to check with your SMTP provider what settings they require such as the port number.

Cheers,

Imar

crossfire19 · May 24th, 2015, 12:03 AM

Hello

Thanks for your reply. I Have actually tried like 4 different port numbers from like 25, 26, 587, and 465. 587 seemed to work just fine when I run it on localhost. It will send everything just fine, but when I try sending it on the server, it doesnt work using that same port number. Then I tried the other three and nothing. I talk to a few different people in live chat on the server site, about my issue, but they really couldn't help me. One person said that the code that I had would only work locally for email sending and not on the server, that just didn't seem right to me. I am trying to use gmail, and everything I found online gives me those port numbers to use. I have tried disabling my firewall. I looked in my email settings to say if maybe there was something that could be disabling, but couldn't find anything.

Thanks
Stephen

Imar · May 24th, 2015, 05:08 AM

Hi Stephen,

The following works for me with Gmail:

Code:

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

If that doesn't work, it's something on the server that prevents the mail from going out in which case it's up to your host to fix that.

BTW, depending on your Gmail settings, you may need to generate an application-specific password, which you can do here: http://bit.ly/N9Wv35.

Hope this helps,

Imar

KelvinSmith · June 4th, 2015, 02:20 AM

The problem may be due to the Firewall or Antivirus preventing port 587 to send the mail.
So, try making your Firewall and Antivirus off.