asp.net send mail

Question

i am writing a program to send mail using asp.net, it gives me an error as the "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid. Here is my code

protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
    msg.To = "[email protected]";
    msg.From = "[email protected]";
    msg.Subject = "hello";
    SmtpMail.Send(msg);
}

Answer 1

You need to add the SMTP server you want to use, something like

System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "mail.provider.com";

_{Perhaps you might want to take a look at the System.Net.Mail, which is the new mail class in .Net 2, System.Web.Mail is obsolete.}

Answer 2

Typically this exception has to deal with the following line of code (or I should say ABSENCE of the following line of code):

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "mail.your-domain.com"

By default, if SmtpMail.SmtpServer is not set, System.Web.Mail is supposed to use localhost as the default property. However, for some reason this doesn't appear work.

You could have done a simple google search for this ;-)

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