Problem with SMTP email

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I am having problem to get this section to work its get a strange error when i try to run the debug "
Error while trying to run project. Unable to start program c:users\.......\debug\windowsapp2.exe

Any help would be great

What I have tried:

VB.NET

Imports System.Net.Mail


Dim smtpserver As New SmtpClient
            smtpserver.EnableSsl = True
            Dim mail As New MailMessage
            smtpserver.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("my emailaddress", "password")
            smtpserver.Port = 587
            smtpserver.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"
            mail = New MailMessage
            mail.From = New MailAddress("my email address.com")
            mail.To.Add("email address.co.uk")
            mail.Subject = "testing auto mail"
            mail.Body = "just test of new mail"
            smtpserver.Send(mail)

Posted 18-Apr-20 5:44am

Member 14805048

Updated 18-Apr-20 11:24am

Maciej Los

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F-ES Sitecore 18-Apr-20 12:35pm

If you remove that code does your exe start?

Maciej Los 18-Apr-20 17:13pm

5ed!

Member 14805048 19-Apr-20 7:07am

yes, i have no problem if i remove that code

Richard Deeming 21-Apr-20 12:04pm

Is that the entire contents of your code file? That code needs to be in a method, which should be in a class or a module.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2020-04-18T11:24:00

Solution 1

Check this: c# - Sending email in .NET through Gmail - Stack Overflow[^]

You need to set up also:

VB.NET

With smtpserver
   '...
   .EnableSsl = True
   .DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network
   .UseDefaultCredentials = False
   '...
End With

Posted 18-Apr-20 11:24am

Maciej Los

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Member 14805048 19-Apr-20 7:14am

added this to the code and it still failed