Sending email via Google's GMail.

[met0555]

Sending email via Google's GMail.

Works on ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Net.Mail

Dim loginInfo As New NetworkCredential("yourUserName@gmail.com", "yourGMailPassword")
Dim msg As New MailMessage(EmailFromTextBox.Text, EmailToTextBox.Text, EmailSubjectTextBox.Text, EmailBodyTextBox.Text)
msg.IsBodyHtml = True
StatusLabel.Visible = False

Try
Dim client As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
client.EnableSsl = True
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false
client.Credentials = loginInfo
client.Send(msg)
Catch ex As SmtpException
StatusLabel.Visible = True
StatusLabel.Style.Add("color", "#CC0033")
StatusLabel.Text = "The following error occurred: " + "<br /><br />" + ex.Message
Return
End Try

StatusLabel.Visible = True
StatusLabel.Style.Add("color", "#009966")
StatusLabel.Text = "Email sent successfully."

[met0555]

Send e-mail with Gmail with Attachment

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Net.Mail

Dim loginInfo As New NetworkCredential("yourUserName@gmail.com", "yourGMailPassword")
Dim msg As New MailMessage(EmailFromTextBox.Text, EmailToTextBox.Text, EmailSubjectTextBox.Text, EmailBodyTextBox.Text)

Dim fileatt As New Attachment(filePath)

fileatt .TransferEncoding = System.Net.Mime.TransferEncoding.QuotedPrintable

msg.Attachments.Add(fileatt )

msg.IsBodyHtml = True
StatusLabel.Visible = False

Try
Dim client As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
client.EnableSsl = True
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false
client.Credentials = loginInfo
client.Send(msg)
Catch ex As SmtpException
StatusLabel.Visible = True
StatusLabel.Style.Add("color", "#CC0033")
StatusLabel.Text = "The following error occurred: " + "<br /><br />" + ex.Message
Return
End Try

StatusLabel.Visible = True
StatusLabel.Style.Add("color", "#009966")
StatusLabel.Text = "Email sent successfully."

[HowTo]

is there any way of not to provide my secret password in the code?

[met0555]

hi,

you must know an SMTP server that doesn't require login. But on this one it's required

[Loterbol]

is there any way of not to provide my secret password in the code?

It can be set in the web.config or app.config under the <system.net><mailSettings><smtp> section if you don't want it in the code.

See... http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/12/16/432854.aspx