Question

Real simple question (so I thought), I just want to send mail from my form without having to Exit() or Restart().

I’ve looked through many examples and they all work but not within a form and the only way I’ve gotten it to work is by calling:

MySmtpClient.Send(MyMailMessage);  
MySmtpClient.Dispose();

But this is not available in .NET 2.0 (what my users’ have on their machines).
So I tried using

MySmtpClient.SendAsync(MyMailMessage, MyMailMessage);

and then disposing after the SendCompleted event handler was triggered but it only gets triggered when I exit my form with Application.Exit();

Am I missing something simple?
Thanks.

Answer 1

From ScottGu’s blog
From MSDN

It looks like in .NET 2.0 SmtpClient did not implement IDisposable. If it’s eating your form’s resources, how about:

SmtpClient mySmtpClient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage myMailMessage = new MailMessage();
//set up email message
mySmtpClient.Send(myMailMessage);
SmptClient = null;