Send Email From ASP.NET

[flesso]

ASP.NET is Microsoft's revolutionary web application technology. ASP.NET has many features built in which other web language framworks don't support, for example AJAX and drag-n-drop technologies.

In this article you will learn how to send emails from an ASP.NET (.aspx) page.

Note: This will only work with version 2.0+ of the framwork.

1) Import the mail namespace into the page.

PHP Code:


<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net.Mail" %> 


2) Create the sub-routine that will send the email.

Sub SendEmail(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

End Sub

To send the mail on page load use the follow sub-routine.

Sub PageLoad(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

End Sub

Note: All sub-routines must be surrounded by the following tags.

PHP Code:


<script language="VB" runat="server">

Sub-routine here.

</script> 


3) Declare the appropriate variables.

Dim msg As MailMessage = new MailMessage()
Dim smtp As New SmtpClient("smtp.yourdomain.com")

4) Start adding the appropriate details.

msg.From = new MailAddress("from@yourdomain.com", "From Person")
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress("recipient@domain.com", "Recipient"))
msg.IsBodyHtml = "False"  'Set this to "True" if the message body will be HTML.
msg.Body = "Email Body"
msg.Subject = "The Subject"

5) Send the email.

smtp.Send(msg)

That's how to send an email using ASP.NET 2.0 (+)!

[steppen]

Guess you will notice, but the frame under "Note: All sub-routines must be surrounded by the following tags." is empty.

[DPS Computing]

On that note, the code section under "1) Import the mail namespace into the page." is also blank.

[Ben]

Yeah I know the problem. I tried fixing the post but the only way to display the code is using the PHP quote tags. Try editing your post flesso to this kind of quote and then all codes that aren't displaying will display:

PHP Code:

<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net.Mail" %> 


As demonstrated above all code that is not displaying will need to be quoted using PHP quote tags in order for it to display properly.

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by Ben

Yeah I know the problem. I tried fixing the post but the only way to display the code is using the PHP quote tags. Try editing your post flesso to this kind of quote and then all codes that aren't displaying will display:

PHP Code:

<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net.Mail" %> 


As demonstrated above section 1 under your tutorial will display using PHP quote tags.

Thank you for the fix Ben. I'm sure flesso will be along soon to fix his post .

[flesso]

Originally Posted by DPS Computing

Thank you for the fix Ben. I'm sure flesso will be along soon to fix his post .

All fixed.

[EOTB]

Hi guys and thanks for the above posts.

I have been receiving an error about unable to send to non-local addresses - eg email outside of the domain. I have created the code below to fix the issue.

Create a button on the page and also a Label with the ID of 'EmailError'.

IMPORTS:

Imports System.Net.Mail
Imports System.Net.NetworkCredential

CODE:

Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim maMailfrom As New MailAddress("[FROM EMAIL]", "[FROM NAME]")
Dim maMailTo As New MailAddress("[TO EMAIL]", "[TO NAME]")
Dim mmEmail As New MailMessage(maMailfrom, maMailTo)
mmEmail.IsBodyHtml = False
mmEmail.Subject = "[SUBJECT]"
mmEmail.Body = "[MESSAGE]
Try

Dim smtpSend As New SmtpClient("smtp.[DOMAIN]")

Dim credLogin As System.Net.NetworkCredential = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("[MAIL BOX EMAIL]", "[MAIL BOX PW]")

smtpSend.Credentials = credLogin

smtpSend.Send(mmEmail)

Catch ex As Exception

EmailError.Text = ex.ToString

End Try
End Sub

Basically replace all the []'s with want you want. I hope this makes sense to you all!

[DPS Computing]

Thanks for the fix eotb!

[tiberiu]

Great tutorial... Sometimes is quite refreshing to have a helping hand when you don't know a certain thing.

[johannabartley]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I will study ASP soon and I started reading some things about it. I must say this is the simplest most comprehensible article about it.
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