SMTP on Windows XP Pro

[R. Ian Lee]

I'm using the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail object (.NET 1.1)
to send email from an ASP.NET application. Everything
works fine when I run it from Windows 2000 Server, but
not from WinXP Pro. Is it not possible to send mail
using the SMTP service or XP? Is there a different class
that I should be using? I don't really need to send
email from XP, but since I'm doing my development from XP
it's really slows down debugging to have to comment out
these lines everytime I need to debug.

Thanks!

Ian

 

[R. Ian Lee]

I have it installed, but not running. I tried re-
installing it and still no luck. The ASP.NET application
gives the following error:

The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.

Thanks,

Ian

 

[dave wanta]

Hi Ian,
Without seeing your code, I'm guessing you didn't set the
SmtpMail.SmtpServer property.

Set this property, even if it is local.

ex:
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "127.0.0.1";

Let me know if that works.

Cheers!
Dave
www.aspNetEmail.com

 

[Tian Min Huang]

Hi Lan,

Please use smarthost.

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = "(e-mail address removed)";
mail.To = "(e-mail address removed)";
mail.Subject = "subject";
mail.Body = "message!";
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
SmtpMail.SmtpServer= "smarthost";
SmtpMail.Send(mail);

SMTPMail does work on XP Pro. We do it all the time. But please pay
attention to smarthost relay, it may cause the email relay. Thanks.

Regards,
HuangTM
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[msnews.microsoft.com]

That partly solves my problem. This solves the problem if the SMTP service
is running, however, if the service is not running I still get an error
stating "The transport failed to connect to the server." Since this is a
development machine and I do not want the emails to actually go anywhere
except the "Pickup" directory I prefer not to have this service running.
This isn't a problem using Windows 2K Server. Is this normal behavior for
XP or am I missing a setting somewhere? Otherwise, how am I supposed to
inspect emails during development without actually sending them?

Thanks!!!

Ian