Not able to send an email using Gmail SMTP server in ASP.NET?

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Hi ,
I am using the below code for sending email using gmail SMTP server. But i am not able to send an email.Please review my code and help me as early as possible.

C#

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = new MailAddress("from gmail emailid");
mail.To.Add("to gmail emailid");
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
mail.Subject = "Email Sent";
mail.Body = "Mail Done";

SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587);
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(my gmail id", "my gmail password");
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
smtp.Send(mail);

Posted 5-Aug-14 2:28am

knackCoder

Updated 5-Aug-14 2:30am

Thanks7872

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Thanks7872 5-Aug-14 8:30am

"i am not able to send an email" is not informative at all.

knackCoder 5-Aug-14 8:37am

Provide me with code for sending an email using Gmail SMTP server in ASP.NET.

[no name] 5-Aug-14 9:00am

Okay, here you go
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = new MailAddress("from gmail emailid");
mail.To.Add("to gmail emailid");
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
mail.Subject = "Email Sent";
mail.Body = "Mail Done";

SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587);
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(my gmail id", "my gmail password");
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
smtp.Send(mail);
Rudely demading code is not going to go over real well on the internet.

Ziee-M 5-Aug-14 9:05am

mail.to.Add("x@x.com") you have to precise the reciver : if you executed that code it want work since the email is not valid.
smtp.Credential ("your email","your password"): you have to put in here the email that will send the message + the password.

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Gihan Liyanage · Answer 1 · 2014-08-05T21:01:00

Be sure to use System.Net.Mail, not the deprecated System.Web.Mail. Doing SSL with System.Web.Mail is a gross mess of hacky extensions.

C#

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;

var fromAddress = new MailAddress("from@gmail.com", "From Name");
var toAddress = new MailAddress("to@example.com", "To Name");
const string fromPassword = "fromPassword";
const string subject = "Subject";
const string body = "Body";

var smtp = new SmtpClient
           {
               Host = "smtp.gmail.com",
               Port = 587,
               EnableSsl = true,
               DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
               UseDefaultCredentials = false,
               Credentials = new NetworkCredential(fromAddress.Address, fromPassword)
           };
using (var message = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress)
                     {
                         Subject = subject,
                         Body = body
                     })
{
    smtp.Send(message);
}