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K.Z
K.Z

Reputation: 5075

send email from MVC 4 ASP.NET app

I am trying to setup simple but complete ASP.NET MVC 4 web app, where I can send email to specific address, I configure the web.config file for SMPT settings and code in controller call, but I am getting error message "The SMTP host was not specified"

<system.net>
<mailSettings>
  <smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="[email protected]">
    <network host="smtp.live.com" port="25" userName="[email protected]" password="myPassword" defaultCredentials="true"/>
  </smtp>
</mailSettings>

in controller class

var mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.To.Add("[email protected]");
mailMessage.Subject = "testing 2 ";
mailMessage.Body = "Hello Mr. Aderson";
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;

var smptClient = new SmtpClient { EnableSsl = false };

smptClient.Send(mailMessage);

many thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 20540

Answers (7)

BernardG
BernardG

Reputation: 1966

I wrote a blog post about doing this. http://www.bgsoftfactory.net/5-steps-to-send-email-with-mvcmailer-from-an-mvc-4-0-application/

I took the easier way, using MVCMailer. Even if sending email from MVC is quite easy, it's a little more complicated to make it nice, while MVCMailer allow to use razor templates to format the body of your email.

You may save yourself some time by using MVCMailer.

Upvotes: 0

ali
ali

Reputation: 182

do some thing like this 

SmtpClient smtp = new  SmtpClient(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.smtp], Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.smtpport]));

if (ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.smtpUseCredentials] == "true")
{
    smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.smtpusername], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.smtppassword], ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.smtp]);
}
else
{
    smtp.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

    if (SendTo.Count == 0)
    {
        SendTo.Add(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[EFloOnline.Model.Constants.ToMail]);
    }

    foreach (string recipientemail in SendTo)
    {
        oEmail.To.Add(recipientemail);
        try
        {
            smtp.Send(oEmail);
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
        }
        oEmail.To.Clear();
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

user2962144
user2962144

Reputation: 1

you missing smptClient.Send(mailMessage); at the end of your code

var mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.To.Add("[email protected]");
mailMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
mailMessage.Subject = "testing 2 ";
mailMessage.Body = "Hello Mr. Aderson";
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;
//this what you miss
    smptClient.Send(mailMessage);
//

Upvotes: 0

johngrinder
johngrinder

Reputation: 422

Best Idea to use SMTP mail functionality in .NET + MVC/ASP is this open source codeplex library:

http://higlabo.codeplex.com/

Especially since the default-delivered components in .NET framework does fully support all types of SSL/TSL etc. (implicit/explicit mode as keyword here)

http://higlabo.codeplex.com/

Upvotes: 2

pateketu
pateketu

Reputation: 451

Upvotes: 0

to StackOverflow
to StackOverflow

Reputation: 124686

Your code and configuration look correct.

Are you sure you have put the system.net/mailSettings element in the web.config in the root directory of your web site?

A common mistake is to put such settings in the web.config in the Views folder.

Incidentally, the MailMessage class implements IDisposable, as does the SmtpClient class from .NET 4. So you should be enclosing both in using blocks.

Upvotes: 0

Jack Hughes
Jack Hughes

Reputation: 5654

From a quick look you haven't set up the "From" property.

var mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.To.Add("[email protected]");
mailMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
mailMessage.Subject = "testing 2 ";
mailMessage.Body = "Hello Mr. Aderson";
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;

Upvotes: 1

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