Anyone have any luck sending emails through gmail accounts in C# applications? I can't get it to work. .

Thanks in advance,

Tom.

"I can't get it to work.." could be alot of things. What have you done/tried to use their server? I assume you have a gmail account that you are sending the email through since their SMTP server requires both authentication and SSL to send email.

What errors are you getting?

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I have this in the Form_Load method:

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage MyMailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage("[email protected]", "[email protected]","This is the mail subject", "Just wanted to say Hello");
MyMailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;
System.Net.NetworkCredential mailAuthentication = new
System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password");
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient mailClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587);
mailClient.EnableSsl = true;
mailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
mailClient.Credentials = mailAuthentication;
mailClient.Send(MyMailMessage);

And I'm getting the following. . . . . .

System.Net.Mail.SmtpException was unhandled
  Message="Failure sending mail."
  Source="System"
  StackTrace:
       at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message)
       at EmailTest.Form1.SendMail1() in C:\Documents and Settings\tobriain\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects\EmailTest\Form1.cs:line 52
       at EmailTest.Form1.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Documents and Settings\tobriain\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects\EmailTest\Form1.cs:line 24
       at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Mes sage& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Mess age& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.O nMessage(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.W ndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallba ck(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
       at System.Windows.Forms.SafeNativeMethods.ShowWindow( HandleRef hWnd, Int32 nCmdShow)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetVisibleCore(Boolea n value)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Form.SetVisibleCore(Boolean value)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible(Boolean value)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.Run MessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.Run MessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
       at EmailTest.Program.Main() in C:\Documents and Settings\tobriain\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects\EmailTest\Program.cs:line 17
       at System.AppDomain.nExecuteAssembly(Assembly assembly, String[] args)
       at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[] args)
       at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.Run UsersAssembly()
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context( Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionCon text executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()


Any help would be much appreciated. Could it be the socket I'm using? Or something else like that?

Tom.

I think Gmails SMTP runs off port 425. Nevertheless, what you should do is login to your gmail account and go to the instructional page on how to setup outlook to send and recieve emails using Gmail, that will give you all of the port informaiton that you need.

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I don't think, they'll allow to use their SMTP server and send mail to others. Otherwise, the millions of spam mails will be send by using their server.

I use GMail via Outlook. The SMTP port is 465 so yes, they allow you to send mail via their SMTP servers.

HOWEVER! By default, you are not allowed to send mail via SMTP. You have to go to your gmail account and edit your preferences to enable POP/SMTP access. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...273&topic=1556

Once enabled and you use the proper port, all should work well.