Sending mails through C#.net

d kris

Hi everyone,

There is a code snippet for sending mail via c#.net application....It requires the header file System.Web.Mail...

All I wanted to know is that - is installation of iis a pre requisite for using this particular feature? please lemme know ... Any help would be appreciated... The code is sumthing like this:

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();

System.Net.NetworkCredential cred = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password");

mail.To.Add("[email protected]");

mail.Subject = "Reminder";

mail.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("[email protected]", "def");

mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

mail.Body = "This is a system generated mesage";

System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");

smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false;

smtp.EnableSsl = true;

smtp.Credentials = cred;

smtp.Send(mail);

thanx again

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Sam Hobbs16y ago
The System.Web.Mail Namespace documentation says:
"The classes in this namespace have been deprecated. Use the System.Net.Mail namespace instead."

So don't use System.Web.Mail.
I doubt that you need to install IIS. The SmtpClient Class documentation explains how to set up IIS if you need to send mail using from a ASP.NET application, but if your application is not a ASP.NET application then I doubt that you need IIS.
Hirendra Sisodiya16y ago
Hello D
You need to smtp service in running state, so you need to installl IIS on that machine...
thanks
Please mark as answere if it helps
Dipa Ahuja16y ago
I think to send mail you have to install IIS

check this

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