Sending Email From ASP.NET Pages

In this article, we have illustrated a wide range of possibilities in sending emails using ASP.NET. The discussion covers such options as email format, priority, attachments and email encoding. ASP.NET is gifted with a new object called SmtpMail for sending emails. SmtpMail Object can be used for sending email from ASP.NET Page by employing the following straightforward steps * Include the namespace required for using mail related classes * Instantiate a message object and set the

Sending Email from an ASP.NET Web Page

One of the most commonly asked questions at ASPMessageboard.com is along the lines of, "How do I send an email through an ASP page?" The wide array of email FAQs on ASPFAQs.com is also proof of this being a commonly asked question. In this article, we will look at how to send email from an ASP.NET Web page! (For more information about ASP.NET be sure to check out the ASP.NET Article Index.) In order to send an email from an ASP.NET Web page, you need to use the SmtpMail class, found in the Sy

Checking My E-Mail

Summary: Duncan Mackenzie describes how to build a tool that uses the System.Net namespace of the Microsoft .NET Framework to check a POP3 e-mail account for unread messages. Spouse-Driven Software Design Coding without any specific goal is like going to the grocery store without a shopping list. Sure, you have a good time, you end up with items—items that might potentially be useful to someone at some point in the future—but you are unlikely to end up with tonight's dinner. Well, that

ASP.NET:Email Web Page

In IE 5 and 5.5 you could click a button to email a page to a friend. This was pretty cool, and since mail attachments are restricted in many areas due to the proliferation of email-attachment-borne viruses, it was nice that it included the page itself as the body of the message, in HTML format. For some reason, IE 6.0 has lost this functionality, and now will only email pages as attachments (at least that's all my version does). So, for this reason and because it combines a few good concepts, I

Cleaning Your Address List

This article was written by an employee of QuickSoft. An easy and accurate way to use bounced messages to clean your address list... Welcome to the first edition of E-mail Secrets. Lately at Quiksoft, we have been talking a lot about cleaning up our e-mail address list. Many of our customers have been asking how to reliably track the status of outbound e-mail messages, and how to update their address database when a message is returned undeliverable, otherwise known as a bounce. In th

ASP.NET Email Using VB

By now we all know how to send server-side email using classic ASP. We either use Microsoft's CDONTS technology or a third-party component such as ServerObjects's ASPMail or Persist's ASPEmail. With ASP.NET server-side email is built-in and can be accessed using the System.Web.Mail namespace. In this article, I will demonstrate how to generate an email with form validation. The Example A lot of people post their resume on their web site. The advantage of having a resume available for recruit

Programming the Sending of Emails yourself

There are (almost) as many email components as there are grains of sand on a beach, and many of them even are free. Certainly (almost) everyone has used them, be it AspMail, CDONTS, SA-SmtpMail or one of many others. Something that (almost) no one has done up to now is programming his or her own email component. In today's article we will concern ourselves with the basics and send a very simple email message. In future articles we will build on the source code presented today and will finally

Sending Email with ASP.NET

Something found on every web page today is an email form of some sort. In all probability this will not change anytime soon, therefore I will demonstrate today how to send email via ASP.NET: from plain to HTML mail and attachments. The use of the source code in this article requires an installation of Microsoft's .NET Framework SDK on a Web server. I also assume a certain familiarity of the reader with the C# programming language.

Sending E-Mails using ASP.NET

In this tutorial we will learn how to send e-mails of both text and HTML formats using classes of System.Web.Mail namespace. Before delving in to the source code, I'll briefly explain the MailMessage and SmtpMail classes which we'll be using to send e-mails.

Sending e-mail with attachments from an ASP.NET page

The task of sending e-mails has become much easier in ASP.NET. In previous versions of ASP we either used a third party component or the limited functionality of CDONTS component for sending emails. The .NET framework provides simpler but powerful class libraries for sending emails. These classes are in the System.Web.Mail Namespace. Following table lists the classes and their use :

Sending E-Mail to Multiple Users from a Database

Anyone done this yet... I am interested in making a mail list system that will query database for email address for users and send out a generic e-mail. The Answer: This can be done using the System.Web.Mail namespace. This namespace has two classes you will use to accomplish this, MailMessage and SmtpMail. The MailMessage class represents a single e-mail message, and the SmtpMail class is used to send the MailMessage using the configured SMTP server. The following code should be used i

Sending Emails with ASP.NET

Standby you are now about to learn how to make and send emails through ASP .NET. As you know that I am a VB.NET programmer (Well I used to be a C/C++ programmer also some months earlier), therefore I will be displaying you how to send emails in ASP.NET through VB.NET. Let's get on the road straight away. First of all you should know about the Namespace that contains the required classes which provide us with the facility of making and sending mails. The System.Web.Mail namespace in .NET provi

Sending Emails Through Outlook using C# and VB.NET

In this article I will give you an example of how to add an e-mail to your Microsoft Outlook outbox folder using C# and/or VB.net. This example also show how easy it is to call functions written in VB.net from C# The code consists of three classes: Form1.cs, CSharp.OutlookMail.cs, VBNET.OutlookMail.vb Form1: a simple Windows Forms which shows how easy it is to call a C# or VB.net function. CSharp.OutlookMail.cs: C# class with one function to add an e-mail to outlook outbox VBNET.OutlookMai

Programming Outlook with C#

Microsoft Office provides a powerful component model to automate from another program. Using this object model, you can access Mail Items, Calendar Items, Journal Entries, and any other item that Outlook normally exposes. Using COM Interop you can automate Outlook from a .NET application. In this article we'll look at different approaches to working with Outlook folders, and walk through creating items in Outlook with C#.

Quote Responder

This program puts together all the pieces of the previous mail handling examples to respond to requests for and send out stock quotes. The program will periodically check your mail for incoming email requests for a stock quote. For any requests, the stock quote is retrieved, and a reply message is sent to the requestor. The real value of this technique is not so much for computer-computer requests, but for requests from wireless devices or cell phones. The retrieval of the quote is handled

Check Your Email With Style

Have you ever wanted to write your own POP3 email client? Well now you can with the help of my C# example. This article explains how to use .NET to connect to a POP3 mail server, and the different commands to use with the server to get the results you want. Connecting To connect to another machine on the Internet like a mail server, you will need a TCP socket. Using the System.Net.Sockets collection of objects, you can do this with ease. The main object we will need is the Socket class. He

Sending E-mail with .Net, the Easy Way

In this edition of E-mail Secrets you will learn the basics of sending e-mail with .Net. We will take a look at the issues pertaining to the needs of most developers and explain them in an easy to understand way. We will try to stay away from complicated topics such as MIME, Base64, etc... Most of the software that we will use to send the messages is free and shields the developer from a learning curve. Most importantly, we will show you how to start sending e-mail from your .Net apps right a

Validating E-mail Against the Mail Server

It's become apparent that someone visiting your Web site or speaking to you on the phone may not give you the correct e-mail address. For good reasons people are wearing of giving out their e-mail address. I personally thank Microsoft for filtering in Outlook, since every day I get about 100 junk e-mails. I laugh all the way to the deleted folder, as they are instantly deleted. Also it's just possible that a typo can occur while gathering data. Looking at the issue from a sales and marketing per