[RESOLVED] [2005] Email in 2005 from 2003

[warrenayen]

Hello,

I have an interesting problem:

We've built special software that processes our Sales Orders and emails, faxes, or EDI's them at various points throughout the day. This data is collected, then e-mailed out to the appropriate people.

This was built in .NET 2003, and uses the System.Web.MailMessage namespace/interface.

In 2005, that isn't really supported - it's done through the System.Net.Mail namespace instead. The problem is this:

In 2003, you can authenticate on the message itself, your password/username for your account. Without that, you won't send the message. This is how you do it:

oMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate", "1") 'basic authentication
oMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername", "username/domain") 'set your username here
oMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword", "thepassword") 'set your password here

What I can't seem to do, is get that to work in 2005. Those fields don't exist, and I can't seem to find a way to authenticate myself to the SMTP server for Microsoft Exchange. Does anyone know?

[VBDT]

Try this

Dim oMsg As New System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
        Dim mailClient As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com")
        Dim basicAuthenticationInfo As New System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "thepassword")
        Try
            mailClient.Credentials = basicAuthenticationInfo
            mailClient.Send(oMsg)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        End Try

don't forget to set the oMsg object's properties!