SmtpClient timeout wont set

[Frinavale]

Hi there,

I am currently behind a firewall that wont let me send emails.

As a result my smtpClient.send(emailMessage) wont work on my IIS but this method does work through the VisualStudio development/test environment.

Lately I've been testing the cases where my site encounters a fault to make sure everything is handled nicely. My only concern is that the smtpClient.send() is taking way to long to time out.

I've already tried to set the timeout property but it isn't helping. It always takes up to 3 minutes to crash and this is just not acceptable by my standards (maybe I'm just impatient)

Does anyone know why the timeout property isn't setting the timeout to take less time?

Also I'm just double checking: is the timeout property value in seconds?

Thanks

-Frinny

[Frinavale]

Hi again,

I don't know why but upon rebooting this problem (that's been bothering me for a couple days now) suddenly went away. (?)

I'm sure now that the timeout property is in seconds....(I was thinking that it was in minutes for a while there..hehe)

-Frinny

[kenobewan]

You are right - timeout is in seconds. If you aren't getting the timeout that you set programmtically, then there is usually a conflicting setting - often in the web.config. Have there been changes to this file or the server/ machine?

[Frinavale]

You are right - timeout is in seconds. If you aren't getting the timeout that you set programmtically, then there is usually a conflicting setting - often in the web.config. Have there been changes to this file or the server/ machine?

Not that I know of.

I ported the application to a new server (basically for backing up) and the time out doesn't work there at all...maybe I haven't set up the servers properly. But it did suddenly start working on my main development server....I'm not sure why because I didn't change anything.

I'll take a look into this.

Thanks

-Frinny