Question

I am trying to create a program that queries a database and exports reports to excel and then emails out the status, I am stuck on the email part. I keep getting “Failure sending mail” and smtpException was unhandled”. I belive this is because the company I am doing this for has a network proxy. I can access the internet. I just can not send an email. Is there anything I need to add to allow it to send it through the proxy?
Here is the error:

    System.Net.Mail.SmtpException was unhandled
  Message=Failure sending mail.
  Source=System
  StackTrace:
       at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message)
       at WindowsFormsApplication1.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Documents and Settings\DavidPaquette\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestMail\TestMail\Form1.cs:line 47
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
       at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
       at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessageW(MSG& msg)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(IntPtr dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context)
       at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm)
       at WindowsFormsApplication1.Program.Main() in C:\Documents and Settings\DavidPaquette\my documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\TestMail\TestMail\Program.cs:line 18
       at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String[] args)
       at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[] args)
       at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly()
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
       at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
       at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
  InnerException: System.Net.WebException
       Message=Unable to connect to the remote server
       Source=System
       StackTrace:
            at System.Net.ServicePoint.GetConnection(PooledStream PooledStream, Object owner, Boolean async, IPAddress& address, Socket& abortSocket, Socket& abortSocket6, Int32 timeout)
            at System.Net.PooledStream.Activate(Object owningObject, Boolean async, Int32 timeout, GeneralAsyncDelegate asyncCallback)
            at System.Net.PooledStream.Activate(Object owningObject, GeneralAsyncDelegate asyncCallback)
            at System.Net.ConnectionPool.GetConnection(Object owningObject, GeneralAsyncDelegate asyncCallback, Int32 creationTimeout)
            at System.Net.Mail.SmtpConnection.GetConnection(ServicePoint servicePoint)
            at System.Net.Mail.SmtpTransport.GetConnection(ServicePoint servicePoint)
            at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.GetConnection()
            at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message)
       InnerException: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException
            Message=A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 173.194.70.108:587
            Source=System
            ErrorCode=10060
            NativeErrorCode=10060
            StackTrace:
                 at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
                 at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Socket s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Int32 timeout, Exception& exception)
            InnerException: 

And here is the email portion of the code:

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

    message.To.Add(new MailAddress("[e-mail]"));
    message.From = new MailAddress("[e-mail]");
    //Attachment attachment = new Attachment(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName);
    message.Subject = "Subject";
    message.Body = "This is a test"; 

    //message.Attachments.Add(attachment);     
    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();

    client.Port = 587; // Gmail works on this port   
    client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";   
    System.Net.NetworkCredential nc = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("[e-mail]", "pass"); 
    client.EnableSsl = true;     
    client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;  
    client.Credentials = nc;  
    client.Send(message);   

Here are the includes:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net;
using System.Collections;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Net.Mail;

Answer 1

You can add a proxy server to your web.config file, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kd3cf2ex.aspx

<configuration>
  <system.net>
    <defaultProxy>
      <proxy
        usesystemdefault="true"
        proxyaddress="http://192.168.1.10:3128"
        bypassonlocal="true"
      />
      <bypasslist
        <add address="[a-z]+\.contoso\.com" />
      </bypasslist>
    </defaultProxy>
  </system.net>
</configuration>

Once you have added this and configured it all outgoing calls (to your SMTP server) will go through the proxy server (unless you add it to the bypass list…).

/Viktor