Sending Authenticated e-mail in ASP.NET 2.0

Login to an SMTP server and send an email

There are many articles on how to send authenticated email in ASP.NET 2.0, but here's how to send an email using a SMTP server that requires authentication.

(Imports System.Net)

Dim client As New SmtpClient("smtp.server.com") 'your SMTP server
client.UseDefaultCredentials = False

'Your username and password to login
client.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password") 
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network
Dim Mail As New MailMessage("from@email.com", "to@email.com", _
        "This is my subject", _
        "This is my pretty, yet boring and useless message")
Mail.IsBodyHtml = True

Try
    client.Send(Mail)
Catch ex As Exception
    Response.Write(ex.Message) 'Write error message
    Exit Sub
End Try

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