I’ve been programming in VBA for a little over 5 years now.  I am brand new
to VB.NET and I am trying to learn what I can about this interesting
technology. 

I found an example (online) of sending emails through .NET so I tried to
follow the example and get this little app working...I’m really struggling
here...

I went to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows
Components > IIS > Details > SMTP (checked).  I looked at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEi07SDbYg8&feature=related

In the Video, the instructor is talking about System.Web.dll and
System.Web.Mail, but I can’t find wither of these under my Project > Add
References.  I’m working with the same Form, as seen in the video, but my
code is a little different because I couldn’t see some of the code that the
Instructor was working with.  I don’t think the problem is necessarily with
the code; somehow I have to get the System.Web.dll…I think.

Anyway, maybe it is the code.  Here is what I’m working with:
Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub btnSend_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles btnSend.Click
        Dim mail As New MailMessage()
        mail.To = txtTo.Text
        mail.From = txtFrom.Text
        mail.Subject = txtSubject.Text
        mail.Body = txtBody.Text
        SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "192.168.2.2" 'your real server goes here
        SmtpMail.Send(mail)

        MsgBox = ("Message Sent")
        Me.Close()
    End Sub
End Class

192.168.2.2 is the IP of my laptop.  When I hit the ‘Send’ button absolutely
nothing happens.  What am I doing worong?

Thanks so much!!
Ryan---

Rguy,

To use SMTP mail you have to activate that in the program and feature
setting (in fact the features)

Be aware that the web.mail version is deprecated, use this one instead

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.aspx

Be aware that you can use your local host (IP address 127.0.0.1) as a server
or the mail.server from your provider, mostly those don't like that.

But don't use a leased IP address on your computer from by instance the 192
range, this can be given by any router in a dynamic way.

Cor

Welcome to the party Cor.  I think you’re right; I think it has something to
do with the SMTP.  I’m still missing something here but I can’t tell what it
is.  Can you please walk me through the process, step by step?  You said that
I need to, ‘activate SMTP in the program and feature setting’.  What does
this mean?  I did some research on this for about an hour today and made
almost no progress on this.  I guess ‘web.mail version is deprecated’.  What
does that mean?  How do I give my 192.xxx IP address in a dynamic way?  What
do I click on?  What are the steps?  I have 5 .NET books, and none of them
discuss the topic of sending emails via SMTP.  I am delighted to be learning
this stuff, but I seem to have hit a wall, and I don’t know what to do next.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Ryan---


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What OS are you using, on this page you see how to set the SMTP service for
XP prosional and things like that.

http://www.emailarchitect.net/webapp/smtpcom/developers/smtpservice.asp

Cor



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Everyone, thank you soooo much for the help!  I started this project 1 week
ago, and just finished today.  As I alluded to before, I am a VBA guy, trying
to become a VB.NET guy.  Everyone's guidance was helpful, but in the end I
just couldn't figure out how the SMTP server stuff worked, and that was the
hangup for me.  I eventually got help from a guy in my office.  Thanks
Sankalp!!

So, anyway, I want to share the final product, so others can benefit from
this experience.  FYI, you need a Gmail account:

Create a Form, and name it 'frmMain'
Create a To TextBox, and name it 'txtTo'
Create a CC TextBox, and name it 'txtCC'
Create a BCC TextBox, and name it 'txtBCC'
Create a Subject TextBox, and name it 'txtSubject'
Create an email Body TextBox, and name it 'txtBody'
Then, create a Send Button, and name it 'btnSend'

This code goes under the Form:
Imports System.Net.Mail

Public Class frmMain

    Private _Username As String
    Private _Password As String

    Public Property UserName() As String
        Get
            Return _Username

        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _Username = value

        End Set
    End Property

    Public Property Password() As String
        Get
            Return _Password

        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _Password = value

        End Set
    End Property

    Private Sub btnSend_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles btnSend.Click


        'Start by creating a mail message object
        Dim MyMailMessage As New MailMessage()

        'From requires an instance of the MailAddress type
        Dim _from As String = UserName & "@gmail.com"

        MyMailMessage.From = New MailAddress(_from)

        'To is a collection of MailAddress types
        If txtTo.Text <> "" Then
            MyMailMessage.To.Add(txtTo.Text)
        Else
            MessageBox.Show("You need to enter atlest one e-mail address")
        End If


        If txtBCC.Text <> "" Then
            MyMailMessage.Bcc.Add(txtBCC.Text)
        End If

        If txtCC.Text <> "" Then
            MyMailMessage.CC.Add(txtCC.Text)
        End If

        MyMailMessage.Subject = txtSubject.Text
        MyMailMessage.Body = txtBody.Text

        'Create the SMTPClient object and specify the SMTP GMail server
        Dim SMTPServer As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com")
        SMTPServer.Port = 587
        ' SMTPServer.Credentials = New
System.Net.NetworkCredential("sankalppande", "Bittu1541982")
        SMTPServer.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(UserName,
Password)
        SMTPServer.EnableSsl = True

        Try
            SMTPServer.Send(MyMailMessage)
            MessageBox.Show("Email Sent")
        Catch ex As SmtpException
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
        End Try
    End Sub
End Class


Finally...yes, almost done...
Create another Form, and name it 'LoginForm'
Create a UserName TextBox and name it 'UsernameTextBox'
Create a Password TextBox and name it 'PasswordTextBox'
Create a Button named 'Cancel' and one more Button named 'OK'
This code goes under the Form:
Public Class LoginForm

    ' TODO: Insert code to perform custom authentication using the provided
username and password
    ' (See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=35339). 
    ' The custom principal can then be attached to the current thread's
principal as follows:
    '     My.User.CurrentPrincipal = CustomPrincipal
    ' where CustomPrincipal is the IPrincipal implementation used to perform
authentication.
    ' Subsequently, My.User will return identity information encapsulated in
the CustomPrincipal object
    ' such as the username, display name, etc.

    Private Sub OK_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles OK.Click

        frmMain.UserName = Me.UsernameTextBox.Text
        frmMain.Password = Me.PasswordTextBox.Text
        frmMain.Show()
        Me.Visible = False

    End Sub

    Private Sub Cancel_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Cancel.Click
        Me.Close()
    End Sub
End Class

HTH,
Ryan---

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ryguy7272 wrote:
You'd better get him to change his gmail password right now. Always blank
out things like real usernames and passwords when posting.

Andrew

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