Setting up ASP.net to send mail

[bbos360]

Hi,

Any help is much appreciated on this query,

ASP.NET has been installed on our server (which can send normal coldfusion mail etc) and we have been developing for over a year now no problem. However simple asp.net mail scripts do not work - no email is recieved, the same script uploaded to our hosting provider works fine. Is there some sort of setup one needs to do before being able to send mails;

Script: (obviously the to and from address as re filled in with valid addresses)

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To = ""
mail.From = ""
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
mail.Subject = "test";
mail.Body = "test body";
SmtpMail.Send(mail);

Thanks in advance

 

[russellobrien]

I am no expert on this, but the only problem I have had is whent the SMTP part of the server was disabled.
Otherwise, the code like yours worked OK.....

Hope this helps, but otherwise good luck.

Russell

 

[AtomicChip]

Try setting the SmtpMail.SmtpServer property. This property must be set in VS.net 2003 but is allowed to be null in 2002 even though sometimes it causes e-mails not to be sent out.

Also, check the mail folder on the server to make sure that the e-mails are not being dropped.

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[bbos360]

I can see the directory under inetpub:

http://wwwroote\mailroot\badmail,

Drop, Pickup etc

If i want to check that the SMTP is working how is this done - can i write a text file (test.txt for eg) and copy into pickup directory. If so what should the .txt file contain i.e to=xyz@company.com etc

Thanks

 

[organicg]

From: person@domain.com
To: diffperson@diffdomain.com
Subject: Some Subject

Message content. I believe the CrLf(line space) is required before the message content.