Question

for sending email i set server name smtp.mail.yahoo.com and port is 465 i trying to send email but failed to send email

what is the correct servername and smtp port to send email using yahoo

what other configuration i needed to set ?

my code is here :

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


                message.To.Add(address);
                message.Subject = subject;
                message.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(from);
                message.Body = body;
                message.Bcc.Add(bcc);
                message.CC.Add(cc);
                System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.mail.yahoo.com");
                smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(emailid,password);
                smtp.Port = 465;
                smtp.EnableSsl = true;
                smtp.Send(message);

Answer 1

I just tried the code and I think the yahoo mail server does not use SSL, because if you comment out

 //smtp.Port = 465;
 //smtp.EnableSsl = true;

it works.