Sending an Email from GH

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 28, 2011 at 1:31pm

It's very difficult to send email from software, precisely because that's how Spammers send spam. If however you have a mail-server you can use and proper passwords, then have a look at the System.Web.Mail namespace, it should be relatively simple to use the MailMessage class.

 

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David Rutten

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on February 28, 2011 at 8:32pm

Creating an email is easy. Sending an email isn't difficult, but requires that you know the smtp address and are able to provide the propert credentials. The following code is going to let you know what classes you need to work with, but isn't really going to help you all that much with getting the correct details to actually send the email. Sometimes, depending on how your network/domain/email account is set up, you may be able to send email without providing a ton of those details.

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage anEmail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
anEmail.From = "me@here.com";
anEmail.To = "you@there.com";
anEmail.Subject = "A Test Email";
anEmail.Body = "Just some text that will be the body of the email.";

System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient client = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();
client.Host = "smtp.yourmailhost.com";
client.Send(anEmail);

Permalink Reply by Victor Leung on February 28, 2011 at 9:26pm

Dear David and Damien,

 

Thanks for the reply, a parametric spammer sounds cool but, yea, I have a mail server, so I might be able to give it a try.

 

Thanks for the code.

 

Victor