Sending E-mail using ASP.net through Gmail account (Gmail SMTP Server account)

Sending E-mail using ASP.net through Gmail account (Gmail SMTP Server account)

Sending mail in day to day life is a basic task of web application for many purpose like- error logging, reporting, performance   alerting as well as many other reasons. 

If you have taken web space somewhere on a web server then you are provided with the Email accounts and SMTP and POP services for sending and receiving E-mails. Sometimes you don't have SMTP server accounts and you may want to send email. Or sometimes, for other reasons also you may want to use third-party SMTP sever for sending E-mails.

Gmail is a good solution for us to solve this purpose. Gmail provides SMTP and POP access which can be utilized for sending and receiving E-mails.

In this tutorial I am going to introduce how to use a Gmail account to send email by SMTP.

 

Step 1:Create a New Website in visual studio and add web form to it. And design it.

Step 2: Write following code to the send button click event.

protected void btnSendMail_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)

    {

        try

        {

            System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();

            string from = "skbadliya@gmail.com";

            mail.To.Add(txtTo.Text.Trim());

            mail.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(from);

            mail.Subject = txtSubject.Text;          

            mail.Body  =txtBody.Text;

            mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

        

            System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();

            client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";

            client.EnableSsl = true;//Gmail works on Server Secured Layer

            //Add the Creddentials- use your own email id and password

            System.Net.NetworkCredential networkcred = new System.Net.NetworkCredential();

            networkcred.UserName = from;

            networkcred.Password = "yourpassword";

            client.Port = 587;// Gmail works on this port

            client.Credentials = networkcred;

            client.Send(mail);

            lblMsg.Text = "Mail Send Successfully...";

        }

        catch(Exception ex)

        {

            lblMsg.Text = ex.Message;

        }

    }

You can download complete code from here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/96499613/AutomaticMailSendingDemo.zip