sending mail causes exception

[KUTTAN]

I am trying to send emailes ,but it leades to exeption

the exeption message is "Failure sending mail."



Try

Dim message As New MailMessage()

message.From =New MailAddress("[e-mail]")

message.To.Add(New MailAddress("[e-mail]"))

message.Subject ="Registration"

message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII

message.Body ="message"

message.IsBodyHtml =True

Dim client As New SmtpClient()

client.Send(message)

Label1.Text ="Email has been sent."

Catch ex As Exception

Label1.Text ="Could not send email: " + ex.Message

End Try



and in web config i have



<mailSettings>

<smtp deliveryMethod="Network">

<network defaultCredentials="true" host="localhost" port="25" />

</smtp>

</mailSettings>

Both email address are original
I am using .NET2.0

my inner exception is that "unable to connect to remote server"



Kindly help me

sujith

[Frinavale]

I am trying to send emailes ,but it leades to exeption

the exeption message is "Failure sending mail."



Try

Dim message As New MailMessage()

message.From =New MailAddress("[e-mail]")

message.To.Add(New MailAddress("[e-mail]"))

message.Subject ="Registration"

message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII

message.Body ="message"

message.IsBodyHtml =True

Dim client As New SmtpClient()

client.Send(message)

Label1.Text ="Email has been sent."

Catch ex As Exception

Label1.Text ="Could not send email: " + ex.Message

End Try



and in web config i have



<mailSettings>

<smtp deliveryMethod="Network">

<network defaultCredentials="true" host="localhost" port="25" />

</smtp>

</mailSettings>

Both email address are original
I am using .NET2.0

my inner exception is that "unable to connect to remote server"



Kindly help me

sujith

Does your email service provider require user credentials to be provided in order to send emails?

-Frinny