Change sitewide email in web.config

We have our .net site deployed into production. We recently had to change a email in the web.config but it didn't seem to email the new location. Do we have to stop the site and restart it or do an iisreset to get the new web.config settings to take be read?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Each time you modify the web.config, the entire webSite gets restarted by IIS.

So any change you make, are automatically reflected on the web site.

Remember that if you have users currently visiting the web site and you modify the web.config, they will lose all Session and Application variables.

HoraShadow

Did it only work after resetting IIS?