Sending email via Google's GMail.

Sending email via Google's GMail.

Works on ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5

asp Code:

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Net.Mail 
 
Dim loginInfo As New NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "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."

Send e-mail with Gmail with Attachment

asp Code:

Imports System.Net
Imports System.Net.Mail 
 
Dim loginInfo As New NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "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."

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

hi,

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

Quote:

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Originally Posted by HowTo

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

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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/archi...16/432854.aspx