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Sending email from ASP.Net 4 - C# sample code

(I updated the code sample based on feedback about C# naming standards and leveraging iDisposable - which I'm sure I'll forget many times until I get comfortable more with C#.)

Below is sample code showing how to send email from ASP.Net 4 (currently in beta as of this posting) using C#. With this code I am assuming that the server already has a local SMTP service installed, so I use "localhost" to relay the email.

Here is the SendMail.aspx page:

 

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="SendMail.aspx.cs" Inherits="SendMail" %>

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

    <title></title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

        Message to:

        <asp:TextBox ID="to" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

        <br />

        Message from:

        <asp:TextBox ID="from" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

        <br />

        Subject:

        <asp:TextBox ID="subject" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

        <br />

        Message Body:

        <br />

        <asp:TextBox ID="body" runat="server" Height="171px" TextMode="MultiLine"

            Width="270px"></asp:TextBox>

        <br />

        <asp:Button ID="sendMail" runat="server" onclick="SendMail_Click"

            Text="Send Email" />

        <br />

        <br />

        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>

    </div>

    </form>

</body>

</html>

 

Here is the source code of the SendMail.aspx.cs page:

using System;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Net.Mail;

 

public partial class SendMail : System.Web.UI.Page

{

    protected void SendMail_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        using (MailMessage mailItem = new MailMessage(

            from.Text, to.Text, subject.Text, body.Text))

        {

            SmtpClient smtpServer = new SmtpClient("localhost");

            try

            {

                smtpServer.Send(mailItem);

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Label1.Text = ex.ToString();

            }

        }

    }

}

 

 

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