Send Email Using Gmail in ASP.NET
using System.Net.Mail;
C# Code
VB.NET Code
You also need to enable POP by going to settings > Forwarding and POP in your gmail
account
Change YourUserName@gmail.com to your gmail ID and YourGmailPassword to Your password
for Gmail account and test the code.
If your are getting error mentioned below
"The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The
server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required."
then you need to check your Gmail username and password.
If you are behind proxy Server then you need to write below mentioned code in your
web.config file.
If you are still having problems them try changing port number to 587
smtp.Host = "smtp.gmail.com,587";
If you still having problems then try changing code as mentioned below:
Now write this code in click event of button
C# Code
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MailMessage
mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To.Add("shodecode.khi@gmail.com");
mail.To.Add("code_shode_online@yahoo.com");
mail.From = new MailAddress("shodecode.khi@gmail.com");
mail.Subject = "Email using Gmail";
string Body = "Hi, this mail is to test
sending mail"+
"using Gmail in ASP.NET";
mail.Body = Body;
mail.IsBodyHtml
= true;
SmtpClient smtp
= new SmtpClient();
smtp.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; //Or Your SMTP Server Address
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential
("YourUserName@gmail.com","YourGmailPassword");
//Or
your Smtp Email ID and Password
smtp.EnableSsl
= true;
smtp.Send(mail);
}
VB.NET Code
Imports System.Net.MailProtected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)Dim mail As MailMessage = New MailMessage()mail.To.Add("shodecode.khi@gmail.com")mail.To.Add("code_shode_online@yahoo.com")mail.From = New MailAddress("shodecode.khi@gmail.com")mail.Subject = "Email using Gmail"String Body = "Hi, this mail is to testsending mail"+"using Gmail in ASP.NET"mail.Body = Bodymail.IsBodyHtml = TrueDim smtp As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient()smtp.Host = "smtp.gmail.com" //Or Your SMTP Server Addresssmtp.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("YourUserName@gmail.com","YourGmailPassword")smtp.EnableSsl = Truesmtp.Send(mail)End Sub
You also need to enable POP by going to settings > Forwarding and POP in your gmail
account
Change YourUserName@gmail.com to your gmail ID and YourGmailPassword to Your password
for Gmail account and test the code.
If your are getting error mentioned below
"The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The
server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required."
then you need to check your Gmail username and password.
If you are behind proxy Server then you need to write below mentioned code in your
web.config file.
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy proxyaddress="YourProxyIpAddress"/>
defaultProxy>
system.net>
If you are still having problems them try changing port number to 587
smtp.Host = "smtp.gmail.com,587";
If you still having problems then try changing code as mentioned below:
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(); smtp.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; smtp.Port = 587; smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = False; smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential ("YourUserName@gmail.com","YourGmailPassword"); smtp.EnableSsl = true; smtp.Send(mail);