SMTP Mail Sending

Question

Hi,

I am using following code to send email:

MailMessage Mailer = new MailMessage();
Mailer.From = new MailAddress(From);
Mailer.To.Add(new MailAddress(To));
Mailer.Subject = Subject;
Mailer.Body = Body;
Mailer.IsBodyHtml = isBodyHTML;
SmtpClient mSmtpClient = new SmtpClient();
mSmtpClient.Host = "ExchangeServer.XXX.YYY.COM"; // Our Exchange server Name
Mailer.Attachments.Add(new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(strLogFile));
mSmtpClient.Send(Mailer);

I stopped my SMTP service but still mail was sent sucessfully. I just want to understand if my SMTP service is stopped how could program send email, shouldn't it be dumped in the mailroot folder?

Thanks, Praveen

Answer 1

Looks like you've told it to use the exchange server with this line here:

mSmtpClient.Host = "ExchangeServer.XXX.YYY.COM"; // Our Exchange server Name

So it won't use your smtp service at all. Change that line of code to this:

mSmtpClient.Host = "localhost";

It will start using the local smtp service, and will fail if you try to run the code with the service stopped.