Sending Email

[Mike Bailey]

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[samsmithnz]

Sending email is a nice feature in .NET.

First youll want to add a reference to system.web.mail.

then add some code simliar to this:

Dim objEmailMessage As System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
        Dim objSMTPServer As System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail

        objEmailMessage = New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
        With objEmailMessage
            .To = "me@mydomain.com"
            .From = "bill.gates@microsoft.com"
            .Subject = "Great Job!"
            .Body = "Want all my money?"
        End With

        objSMTPServer.Send(objEmailMessage)

You can specify a specific SMTP server if required, and you can add attachments using the attachments property.

This should give you a good enough start.

Sam.

 

[Mike Bailey]

Thank you very much but what do you mean by.
(First youll want to add a reference to system.web.mail.)

 

[Robby]

Mike is this a Windows app? If so then you cant use System.Web.Mail

Actually adding a ref to SystemWeb.dll might work.

 

[Mike Bailey]

Yes this is a Windows App but I dont understand what adding a ref to SustmeWeb.dll means

 

[samsmithnz]

Yes system.web WILL work in a Windows application. Its jsut a namespace.

2ndly, goto the references, right click and select add a new reference, and then find system.web.

Then you can do everything.

 

[Mike Bailey]

Yep tryed it and it works THANKS ALOT.
In the code above I dont see a way to add a smtp server. Is it useing seting already on the computer or what?

 

[Mike Bailey]

Thanks everyone for all the help I have worked on this and everything is working fine I will need to modify the code provided by (samsmithnz) (Tanks by the way) But it seems to work just like it is. When I run it I see my outgoing email scanner go off but I never receive an email I changed the code to my email address but still get nothing. The only thing I can think of is that I have specified an SMTP server. Can anyone help???

 

[Robby]

Is the SMTP configured on your machine?

 

[Mike Bailey]

no and I will be puting this program on another machine so I really need to be abel to specafy the smtp server.

I really need to beable to use a smtp sever like comcast

(smtp.comcast.net)

This project is for the Museum of Flight In Seattle what it

 

[mutant]

If you dont have a SMTP server on the client computer then what you could do is maybe set up an email hosting/website hosting and use the server name that would be provided. Like email.yourdmain.com. Works for me with the email server provided by my webhost.

 

[Mike Bailey]

Now Im getting this


The messeage comes when it runs the last line of code

Hers my code

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim objEmailMessage As System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
        Dim objSMTPServer As System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail

        objEmailMessage = New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
        With objEmailMessage
            .To = txtToEmail.Text
            .From = txtFrom.Text
            .Subject = "Great Job!"
            .Body = "Want all my money?"
        End With

       [color=red] objSMTPServer.Send(objEmailMessage)[/color]


   
    End Sub
End Class

When the code that is in red is ran I get this error

An unhandled exception of type System.Web.HttpException occurred in system.web.dll

Additional information: Could not access CDO.Message object.

 

[samsmithnz]

Add a line jsut before you send the email, I dont have VS.NEt open right here, but if you type in objSMTPServer and then a dot, you can select a STMPSERVER property (or something like that), and add "smtp.comcast.com".

That error youre receiving is a roundabout way of saying you dont have smtp confgiured on your computer. I recommend you select MailMessage and SmtpMail in your code and press F1 to get an overview of what each class actually does.

Sam

 

[darknuke]

objSMTPServer.smtpserver = "smtp.comcast.net"