How to send Emails

[Michael_]

I'm making a program with visual basic 2008 express edition that the user needs to enter his/her email address. I need a way of sending them an email containing nothing fancy just a subject and a body. I can send emails to google mail email address using the smpt but nobody else. I there a way to send an email to someone no matter what email domain they have. Also when this email is sent I need to send an email to me (Removed By Mod)

How can I do this?
Bye

[ForumAccount]

Did you search the forum? This question gets asked and answered a lot here.

[Pradeep1210]

Use the System.Net.Mail namespace. It has all the methods to create and send emails.

[stateofidleness]

and I would edit the OP to exclude the actual email address. Spammers will eat that up in a heartbeat.

[Hack]

I have edited your post and removed your email address.

You should never post your email address in an open post on an open forum. Mail spam bots can pick that up and before you know it, your mailbox is full of junk mail. If you wish to share your email address with other forum members, please do so via our PM system.

In addition, we prefer all answers to questions be publically posted rather than sent via EMail or PM. That way, everyone with a similar problem can benefit.

Thanks.

[Hakka]

Hi,
A few days ago I've made the same thing.
This is the code I've used:

Imports System.Net.Mail
Public Class Form1
 
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim MyMailMessage As New MailMessage()
Try
MyMailMessage.From = New MailAddress("@@@")
MyMailMessage.To.Add("@@@")
MyMailMessage.Subject = "@@@"
MyMailMessage.Body = "Name" & vbTab & ": " & Name.Text & vbNewLine
 
Dim SMTP As New SmtpClient("@@") 'put in you providers SMTP server
SMTP.EnableSsl = False
SMTP.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("@@@", "@@@") '1st @@@ emailaddess 2nd @@@ password
SMTP.Send(MyMailMessage)
MessageBox.Show("Mail send", MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Information")
Catch ex As Exception
End Try

Although (as far as I know) it depends on your providers SMTP and if they allow to send mails at port 25. My provider only let me send SMTP mail through their smtp address. So if you want to be able to send from different places be sure to adjust the SMTP address.

Again, if i'm wrong, love to hear it.

Paul