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Send Email from your GMAIL account using ASP.Net and C#

Published in: C# 

URL: http://shabdar.org/send-email-using-gmail-account-asp-net-csharp.html

This is a code example which demonstrates how to send Email with attachment using your GMAIL Account.


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  1. using System.Web.Mail;
  2. using System;
  3. public class MailSender
  4. {
  5.     public static bool SendEmail(
  6.         string pGmailEmail, 
  7.         string pGmailPassword, 
  8.         string pTo, 
  9.         string pSubject,
  10.         string pBody, 
  11.         System.Web.Mail.MailFormat pFormat,
  12.         string pAttachmentPath)
  13.     {
  14.     try
  15.     {
  16.         System.Web.Mail.MailMessage myMail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();
  17.         myMail.Fields.Add
  18.             ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver",
  19.                           "smtp.gmail.com");
  20.         myMail.Fields.Add
  21.             ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport",
  22.                           "465");
  23.         myMail.Fields.Add
  24.             ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing",
  25.                           "2");
  26.         //sendusing: cdoSendUsingPort, value 2, for sending the message using 
  27.         //the network.
  28.  
  29.         //smtpauthenticate: Specifies the mechanism used when authenticating 
  30.         //to an SMTP 
  31.         //service over the network. Possible values are:
  32.         //- cdoAnonymous, value 0. Do not authenticate.
  33.         //- cdoBasic, value 1. Use basic clear-text authentication. 
  34.         //When using this option you have to provide the user name and password 
  35.         //through the sendusername and sendpassword fields.
  36.         //- cdoNTLM, value 2. The current process security context is used to 
  37.         // authenticate with the service.
  38.         myMail.Fields.Add
  39.         ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate","1");
  40.         //Use 0 for anonymous
  41.         myMail.Fields.Add
  42.         ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
  43.             pGmailEmail);
  44.         myMail.Fields.Add
  45.         ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
  46.              pGmailPassword);
  47.         myMail.Fields.Add
  48.         ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl",
  49.              "true");
  50.         myMail.From = pGmailEmail;
  51.         myMail.To = pTo;
  52.         myMail.Subject = pSubject;
  53.         myMail.BodyFormat = pFormat;
  54.         myMail.Body = pBody;
  55.         if (pAttachmentPath.Trim() != "")
  56.         {
  57.             MailAttachment MyAttachment = 
  58.                     new MailAttachment(pAttachmentPath);
  59.             myMail.Attachments.Add(MyAttachment);
  60.             myMail.Priority = System.Web.Mail.MailPriority.High;
  61.         }
  62.  
  63.         System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "smtp.gmail.com:465";
  64.         System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(myMail);
  65.         return true;
  66.     }
  67.     catch (Exception ex)
  68.     {
  69.         throw;
  70.     }
  71. }
  72. }
  73.  
  74.  
  75. //Example usage of this class
  76.  
  77. EmailLib.SendEmail.SendEmail("your_gmail_id", 
  78.                              "your_gmail_password", 
  79.                              "to_email@anydomain.com", 
  80.                              "This is email subject" , 
  81.                              "This is email body", 
  82.                              Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text, 
  83.                              "Physical path to your Attachment")

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