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How to send email from your asp.net code?

' Visual Basic Sample - Sending SMTP Authenticated E-mail

' Please replace yourdomain.com in code with your domain hosted with us
'
Private Sub SendEmail()
Try
' Create a new MailMessage object and specify the "From" and "To" addresses
Dim message As New MailMessage("From email", "To Email", "Subject", "Body message")
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient("mail.yourdomain.com") 
' Authentication
Dim basicAuthenticationInfo As New System.Net.NetworkCredential("User@yourdomain.com", "Password")
emailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = False
emailClient.Credentials = basicAuthenticationInfo
message.IsBodyHtml = True
emailClient.Send(message)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show("Error sending email: " + ControlChars.NewLine _
+ ControlChars.NewLine + ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub

 

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Web.config

<system.net>

<mailSettings>

<smtp>

<network host="mail.yourdomain.com" port="8889" userName="yourmail@yourdomain.com" password="password" />

</smtp>

</mailSettings>

</system.net>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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