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Send Email using Gmail by C#

Ngo Tuong Dan, 26 Oct 2015

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Send Email using Gmail by C#

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Introduction
Now, gmail is a free webmail also free SMTP server for developer integrated into their app. In this post, we are using C# to send
an email from our app within two steps:
Step 1: Configure mail server via web.config
Step 2: Send mail with SmtpClient class

Background
Understand email processing
Basic about configuration file in ASP.NET

Declare smtp Server Through web.config File

<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp from="ngotuongdan@gmail.com">
<network host="smtp.gmail.com"
password="your mail password" port="587" userName="your user" />
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>
You can provide SMTP server address (DNS name or IP) with host attribute, in this tip i'm using google mail.
To authenticate with google mail, you must declare your account information as: username and password at password and
username attribute.

Get smtp Server from config File

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var smtpSection = (SmtpSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.net/mailSettings/smtp");

string strHost = smtpSection.Network.Host;
int port = smtpSection.Network.Port;
string strUserName = smtpSection.Network.UserName;
string strFromPass = smtpSection.Network.Password;
ConfigurationManager.GetSection("system.net/mailSettings/smtp") help us move to smtp tag and cast to SmtpSection object. The
Network property of smtpSection provide information between network tag.

Provide Authenticatioin Information to Gmail Server

SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(strHost, port);
NetworkCredential cert = new NetworkCredential(strUserName, strFromPass);
smtp.Credentials = cert;
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
Now, we send user/pass to gmail server through SmtpClient and NetworkCredential as above.

Create Mail Content

MailMessage msg = new MailMessage(smtpSection.From, Email);
msg.Subject = "This is the subject";
msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
msg.Body += "<h1>This is a title</h1>";
msg.Body += "<h3>This is a sub title</h3>";
msg.Body += "<p>This is the message.</p>";
EmailMessage help us create an email:
smtpSection.From get email from config file as sender email
Email is reciever email
isBodyHtml format your mail as html code, this help your mail can view as webpage in reading mode

Send Mail
smtp.Send(msg);

Conclusion
Sending email becomes more easy with C# and Gmail. Thanks Google

License
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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