Hi. I am running into an error when I try to send an email through ASP.NET. The error is saying 'A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host' You can view and reproduce this error at http://kiranc.co.uk/test/contact.aspx simply by filling in the form and trying to send it. I have done some googling, but haven't come up with anything useful yet... I am posting the code of interest (for reference) protected void sendEmail() { // send email btnSend.Visible = false; string mailBody = 'Name: ' + txtName.Text + '\n' + 'Email: ' + txtEmail.Text + '\n' + 'Tel: ' + txtTel.Text; MailMessage message = new MailMessage('mailTo', 'mailFrom', 'ASP.NET Test Email', mailBody); SmtpClient emailClient = new SmtpClient('myemailserver'); emailClient.Send(message); <---------------------- this line is where the error is occurring lblMsg.Text = 'Your email has been successfully sent!'; } Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
It's OK, this issue has now been resolved. I just happened to (coincidentally) come across a similar post where someone else was having a related problem; http://community.discountasp.net/default.aspx?f=24&m=18034 Basically, the solution involved setting smtp server to localhost as Vikram stated, rather than the actual mail host, (which I thought it had to be!).
