Sending an Automated email from asp.net 3.5 in vb 2008

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Hi
I'm a student doing a 3rd year project and I am having trouble with sending automated emails.
I've looked at examples on this site and other sites but can't seem to get it to work.

Does someone maybe have a simple way of doing this?

I kind of need help from beginning to end, especially regarding the smtp server.

If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm still pretty new to asp.net :)

Posted 9-Aug-10 3:06am

**Butterfly Girl**

Updated 9-Aug-10 3:16am

Dalek Dave

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Dalek Dave 9-Aug-10 9:16am

Minor Edit for Readability.
It is not a dumb question, and is phrased well.

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**Dalek Dave** · Answer 1 · 2010-08-09T03:18:00

Solution 1

Do you mean sending mail from the webpage on completion of a request?

Posted 9-Aug-10 3:18am

Dalek Dave

**Butterfly Girl** · Answer 2 · 2010-08-09T04:37:00

The mail must be sent on a button click event.
Basically, i need to send an email after a record in the database has been updated and the user involved needs to receive the email notifying him of the update.

I need to obtain the content of the email from procedures within events in the program and not through values entered in textboxes.

What is the best way to send an email like this?

Thanks

Simon_Whale · Answer 3 · 2010-08-09T05:39:00

Solution 3

MSDN Forum QA on net mail

Me Personal I Create a class and have properties for each type such as From, Too, CC, BCC etc rather than a big parameter list for a function or sub rountine

and pass the values from the text box into the class and then send

Hope this makes sense :-D

Posted 9-Aug-10 5:39am

Simon_Whale

sudhir.inamdar · Answer 4 · 2010-08-09T23:27:00

Hi,

try this

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To.Add("xxx@gmail.com");
mail.From = new MailAddress("yyy@gmail.com", "Hello");
mail.Subject = "this Is me";
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
mail.Body = "Hai"; 
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();
smtp.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("yyy@gmail.com", "12345");
smtp.EnableSs = true;

:thumbsup:

**Butterfly Girl** · Answer 5 · 2010-08-11T03:16:00

Solution 5

Thanks for the help, i got it working.
When i use localhost im able to save the message to the root folder of the program, but when i try to use my service provider's smtp server, nothing is sent although no error is given.

Posted 11-Aug-10 3:16am