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Hi all
I use:
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text, txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)

And its working fine.
However I was wondering if there is a way to confirm that the email was sent.
The send method does not return anything....

Please advise

TIA
Guy Cohen
Jan 6 '08 #1
4 2402
On Jan 6, 5:40 pm, Guy Cohen <GuyCo...@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote:
Hi all
I use:
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text, txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)

And its working fine.
However I was wondering if there is a way to confirm that the email was sent.
The send method does not return anything....

Please advise

TIA
Guy Cohen
After "emailclient.se nd" you add a messagebox which confirms success,
that's all. I've done like that and works.

Like:
Try
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text,
txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
msgbox("success fully sent")

Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.messa ge)

end try

You can test, enter some invalid SMTP server address then you will get
a error in msgbox(ex.messa ge) which is defined inside catch method
saying with "failure sending mail"

Hope this helps.

Let us know

Regards.
Jan 6 '08 #2
In other words - you say if "on error" or "try/catch" did not trap any error
it means - it is ok?
....Can someone approve that ?

"kimiraikko nen" wrote:
On Jan 6, 5:40 pm, Guy Cohen <GuyCo...@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote:
Hi all
I use:
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text, txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)

And its working fine.
However I was wondering if there is a way to confirm that the email was sent.
The send method does not return anything....

Please advise

TIA
Guy Cohen

After "emailclient.se nd" you add a messagebox which confirms success,
that's all. I've done like that and works.

Like:
Try
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text,
txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
msgbox("success fully sent")

Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.messa ge)

end try

You can test, enter some invalid SMTP server address then you will get
a error in msgbox(ex.messa ge) which is defined inside catch method
saying with "failure sending mail"

Hope this helps.

Let us know

Regards.
Jan 6 '08 #3
On Jan 6, 6:35 pm, Guy Cohen <GuyCo...@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote:
In other words - you say if "on error" or "try/catch" did not trap any error
it means - it is ok?
...Can someone approve that ?

"kimiraikko nen" wrote:
On Jan 6, 5:40 pm, Guy Cohen <GuyCo...@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote:
Hi all
I use:
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text, txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
And its working fine.
However I was wondering if there is a way to confirm that the email was sent.
The send method does not return anything....
Please advise
TIA
Guy Cohen
After "emailclient.se nd" you add a messagebox which confirms success,
that's all. I've done like that and works.
Like:
Try
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text,
txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
msgbox("success fully sent")
Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.messa ge)
end try
You can test, enter some invalid SMTP server address then you will get
a error in msgbox(ex.messa ge) which is defined inside catch method
saying with "failure sending mail"
Hope this helps.
Let us know
Regards.
Hi,
Have you tried the code?
I tried the code with entering an invalid SMTP code.

when it fails because of invalid smtp address you get "failure sending
mail" in a messagebox. Even there may be different reason of errors,
but i'm afraid .NET's mail send feature doesn't report the failure
reason. Just says "failure sending mail"
Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.excep tion)

If there's no problem you get what you set as a success notification.
In this case you can use messagebox:

Try
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text,
txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
msgbox("success fully sent")

Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.messa ge)

end try

Thanks.
Jan 6 '08 #4
On Jan 6, 6:44 pm, kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkone.. .@gmail.comwrot e:
On Jan 6, 6:35 pm, Guy Cohen <GuyCo...@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote:
In other words - you say if "on error" or "try/catch" did not trap any error
it means - it is ok?
...Can someone approve that ?
"kimiraikko nen" wrote:
On Jan 6, 5:40 pm, Guy Cohen <GuyCo...@discu ssions.microsof t.com>
wrote:
Hi all
I use:
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text, txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
And its working fine.
However I was wondering if there is a way to confirm that the email was sent.
The send method does not return anything....
Please advise
TIA
Guy Cohen
After "emailclient.se nd" you add a messagebox which confirms success,
that's all. I've done like that and works.
Like:
Try
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text,
txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
msgbox("success fully sent")
Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.messa ge)
end try
You can test, enter some invalid SMTP server address then you will get
a error in msgbox(ex.messa ge) which is defined inside catch method
saying with "failure sending mail"
Hope this helps.
Let us know
Regards.

Hi,
Have you tried the code?
I tried the code with entering an invalid SMTP code.

when it fails because of invalid smtp address you get "failure sending
mail" in a messagebox. Even there may be different reason of errors,
but i'm afraid .NET's mail send feature doesn't report the failure
reason. Just says "failure sending mail"
Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.excep tion)

If there's no problem you get what you set as a success notification.
In this case you can use messagebox:

Try
Dim message As New MailMessage(txt To.Text, txtFrom.Text,
txtSubject.Text ,
txtBody.Text)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(txtS MTPServer.Text)
emailClient.Sen d(message)
msgbox("success fully sent")

Catch ex as exception
Msgbox(ex.messa ge)

end try

Thanks.
Addition: Catch block also reports some other errors such as invalid
sender mail or destination mail like some strings but "before"
sending. As you know, after sending mail with correct standards(smtp
server name, correct form of mail address) there's no guarantee that
the destination address will be found on destination server, you may
get a returning failure mail from destination server if destination
mail address is unreachable due to any reason on server-side. It's
about regular mailing stragegy not about .NET's mail feature of
course.

Regards.
Jan 6 '08 #5

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