asp.net sending email

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

using the code below (our friends from Rolla!), i'm having trouble sending emails from an asp.net web page. is there anything i need to specify / declare, smtpserver?

the code is working, and the asp.net page is completing without errors - but no email is being received.

many thanks,
JC



'Create an instance of the MailMessage class
Dim objMM as New MailMessage()

'Set the properties
objMM.From = "randomemail@domain.com"
objMM.To = "myemail@domain.com"


'If you want to CC this email to someone else...
'objMM.Cc = "someone2@someaddress.com"

'If you want to BCC this email to someone else...
'objMM.Bcc = "someoneElse@someaddress.com"

'Send the email in text format
objMM.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
'(to send HTML format, change MailFormat.Text to MailFormat.Html)

'Set the priority - options are High, Low, and Normal
objMM.Priority = MailPriority.High

'Set the subject
objMM.Subject = "Celebrationsites Web Site Enquiry"

'Set the body - use VbCrLf to insert a carriage return
objMM.Body = strBody
'strBody being a variable containing message

'Specify to use the default Smtp Server
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "localhost"

'Now, to send the message, use the Send method of the SmtpMail class
SmtpMail.Send(objMM)

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

defaulted to local host, by not specifying anything - and changed TO address to a hotmail account instead of a personal account...

and if by magic... the postman delivered.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

So is there still a problem?

[RFH Reseller: creativeworks]

currently now no problem - this thread was started by me, and finished by me! maybe i just need a personal blog to figure out my problems?...!!

not sure what was causing the problem (possible my choice of TO email address was being blocked?), but happened on a redfox server and an iomart server... so obviously i was responsible!

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

I would think it was initially the 'localhost' problem. I'm not sure how the RFH servers are configured but I would expect that there is a very basic SMTP service running on the web server that allows mail to be sent through it providing it originates on the web server.

I typically use a SMTP component that allows me to specify a real mail server and then send through that using SMTP Authentication. One such component available for the .Net Framework is OpenSmtp (links to SourceForge). This component also allows images to be embedded within the emails and is great for reports.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

An SMTP server is running on all webservers, on both ports 25 and 2525.