Question

i wrote the method as below i got the error as The specified string is not in the form required for an e-mail address. pls help me

SendMail("[e-mail]","hi","heloo");

public bool SendMail(string toMailAddress, string mailSubject, string mailMessage)
    {

         string smtphost ="smtp.gmail.com";
            int smtpport = 100;
            string smtpuser ="xyz";
            string smtppwd = "xyz";
            SmtpClient client = null;



            string MessageBody = string.Empty;
            try
            {

                message = new MailMessage();
                message.From = new MailAddress(smtpuser);
                message.To.Add(toMailAddress);
                message.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
                message.Subject = mailSubject;
                message.Body = mailMessage.ToString();



                message.IsBodyHtml = true;

                client = new SmtpClient();
                client.Host = smtphost;

                client.Port = smtpport;
                client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(smtpuser, smtppwd);
                client.Send(message);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                string x = ex.Message;
            }
            return true;
        }

Answer 1

Your “from” user must be in the form of a valid email address.

message.From = new MailAddress(smtpuser);

Also, you will need to use the MailAddress constructor for the .To property as well.