Thanks, I'm excited to try it.
Maybe you also know the answer to this very related question... Sometimes I
send from aliases that are mapped on the POP3 server if someone did reply.
For example, suppose I have a real account called
sa***@domain.com, and
that's a real account that has a username and password that I can use in
your example. But often I will send mail from something else like
or************@domain.com . There's no account for this, but I have an
alias on the pop server that will map any incoming mail to order-receipts
over to the real sales account. Obviously I still need to send from
order-receipts, though. Using the SMTP server with IIS, this works fine.
Now that I'm going to send through a 3rd party mail server, I'm wondering
what will happen. Can I put anything I want in the mail.From field as long
as it is at the same domain?
Have you found out anything else, good or bad, about using this technique
compared to the regular IIS SMTP service?
Again, thanks very much. Yours was a perfect newsgroup reply!
"Smithers" <Ja*********@OnceOver.com> wrote in message
news:eD**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
I recently hunted high and low for the same purpose. Here is what I found.
It is apparently undocumented, but has been working for me very well. The
whole trick is in the mail.Fields.Add lines:
System.Web.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();
mail.To = eMailRecipients; //"Jo*****@Yahoo.com;Ja*****@Yahoo.com";
mail.From = "Me@MyDomain.com";
mail.Subject = "Hello World!";
mail.Body = messageToGo;
mail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenti
cate", "1"); //basic authentication
mail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername
", "MyFullUserNameHere"); //set your username here
mail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword
", "MyPasswordHere"); //set your password here
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "Mail.YourDomain.com"; //your smtp
server goes here
System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send( mail );
If someone else has a better way I'd like to know.
-Smithers
"RN" <re*************@please.com> wrote in message
news:Ju******************@twister.socal.rr.com...I am tired of sending mail from the built-in SMTP service for so many
reasons (errors are nondescriptive in the event log, it doesn't let me
control which IP address it sends from, and it identifies itself as the
computer name which is not in domain.com format, triggering spam filter
problems).
Instead, I want to have my code send through an SMTP server of a company
that we pay for mail service. But they require a username and password.
How do I use something other than "localhost" for the Smtp Server and
how do
I pass the username and password?