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

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

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You can use your gmail account to send emails from ASP.Net and C#, using SMTP. You need to set SSL credentials. This is not straight forward like a simple SMTP email. After searching for long hours I was able to find a solution. Use following class to send emails using your GMAIL account.

Please supply your gmail user name and password in following class where needed.

01.using System.Web.Mail;

02.using System;

03.public class MailSender

04.{

05.public static bool SendEmail(

06.string pGmailEmail,

07.string pGmailPassword,

08.string pTo,

09.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.}

Example usage of this class,

1.EmailLib.SendEmail.SendEmail("your_gmail_id",

2."your_gmail_password",

3."to_email @ anydomain.com",

4."This is email subject" ,

5."This is email body",

6.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text,

7."Physical path to your Attachment")

Note: If you do not want to attach a file with email, supply blank string as "".