Solution to Sending Email from Site using SMTP

Hello everyone,

I finally got this set up today after a couple hours of pointless tutorials. Perhaps this code can help others

This code uses the input from a "Contact Form" on my website, to use the information and send it to my postmaster email account on discountasp.net.

This code is put on the "Button_Click" event, when I click the "Send Button" on my contact form within my website.

Code:

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = new MailAddress(EmailAddTextBox.Text);
         
            // This is the email where you will be sending the form's contents
            // It can be any valid email
            mail.To.Add("[email protected]");

            mail.Subject = "Form Response from YourSite.com";

            mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

            // This is taken from the contents of my contact form
            mail.Body = "First Name: " + FNameTextBox.Text + "<br />";
            mail.Body += "Last Name: " + LNameTextBox.Text + "<br />";
            mail.Body += "Email: " + EmailAddTextBox.Text + "<br />";
            mail.Body += "Comments: " + CommentTextBox.Text + "<br />";

            try
            {
                SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();
                smtp.Send(mail);

                // My own functions
                ClearForm();
                SuccessPlaceHolder.Visible = true;
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                // Shows a fail message if email was never sent
                FailPlaceHolder.Visible = true;
            }

This code is placed in the webconfig file. I placed this at the very bottom, just before the ending of the document.

Code:

 
<system.net>
        <mailSettings>
            <smtp from="[email protected]">
                <network host="localhost" port="25" 
userName="mydiscountasp username" 
password="mydiscountasp password" 
defaultCredentials="true" />
            </smtp>
        </mailSettings>
    </system.net>

This code ONLY WORKS once your site is live hosted on discountasp.net. Simply running on this code on your computer, it will not work.

Hope that helps!