Question

I have an asp.net 4.0 web site that generates email alerts based on several different events throughout the site. I use the following code in a Utility.cs class that lives in my App_Code folder. Subject, body, and mailto are parameters being passed into the method.

try
{
    var mailmessage = new MailMessage();
    mailmessage.From("[e-mail]");
    mailmessage.To.Add(new MailMessage(mailTo));
    mailmessage.ReplyTo("[e-mail]");
    mailmessage.Subject = subject;
    mailmessage.Body = body;
    mailmessage.IsBodyHtml = true;
    var smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
    smtpClient.Send(mailmessage);
}
catch (Exception smtpEx)
{// write to windows event log}

And my web.config

  <system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="[e-mail]">
        <network host="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" port="25" defaultCredentials="true"/>
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>

These emails are never recieved. However interestingly when I use the “Forgot Password” functionality I do get my emails. That functionality is achieved using the PasswordRecovery control, and it is used as follows.

<asp:PasswordRecovery ID="xxx" Visible="false" runat="server"></asp:PasswordRecovery> 

I am not setting any of the MailDefinition properties at all which makes me assume it is using my my web.config settings, so why can this control use those settings but my c# code cannot. I’m guessing it’s my mail message maybe??

Appreciate any help you guys can offer.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I figured it out – Sorry to waste your guys time. It was just an oversite and I let intellisence get the best of me.

mailmessage.To.Add(new MailMessage(mailTo));

should read

mailmessage.To.Add(new MailAddress(mailTo));

glad it’s resolved, but don’t know how I missed that.