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Send Email from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail (C#)

By adriancs, 3 Jan 2013
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A Class for Sending Email Easily from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or your own email. Type Licence Tip/Trick CPOL 3 Jan 2013 8,453 860 21 times

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A Class for Sending Email Easily from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or your own email.

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Sending Email from Yahoo Mail.
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EmailSender es = new EmailSender(); es.From = "myemail@yahoo.com"; es.To = "anyaddress@anydomain.com"; es.Password = "mypwd"; es.Subject = "Test Mail"; es.Body = "hello"; es.IsHtmlBody = false; es.EmailProvider = EmailSender.EmailProviderType.Yahoo; es.Send();

Sending Email from Gmail. Change the EmailProvider to Gmail

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es.EmailProvider = EmailSender.EmailProviderType.Gmail;

Sending Email from Hotmail/Windows Live . Change the EmailProvider to Hotmail

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es.EmailProvider = EmailSender.EmailProviderType.Hotmail;

Sending Email from your own domain. Change the EmailProvider to Other
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es.EmailProvider = EmailSender.EmailProviderType.Other; es.Host = "smtp.mydomain.com"; es.Port = 25; es.EnableSSL = false;

To add single file as attachment.

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es.AttachFile = "C:\\MyFile.zip";

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es.AttachmentFileList.Add("C:\\MyFile1.zip"); es.AttachmentFileList.Add("C:\\MyFile2.zip");

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es.AttachmentFileArray = new string[] { "C:\\MyFile1.zip", "C:\\MyFile2.zip" };

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using System.Net.Mail; using System.Net;

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using (var client = new SmtpClient("smtp.mail.yahoo.com", 587)) { client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("myemail@yahoo.com", "mypwd"); var mail = new MailMessage(); mail.From = new MailAddress("myemail@yahoo.com"); mail.To.Add("anyaddress@anydomain.com"); mail.Subject = "Test mail"; mail.Body = "test body"; client.Send(mail); }

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Note: In earlier version of .NET Framework, SmtpClient has not implement IDisposable. Therefore, you can't use Using to declare it. Sending email from Gmail:
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using (var client = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587)) { client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("myemail@gmail.com", "mypwd"); var mail = new MailMessage(); ... ... client.EnableSsl = true; client.Send(mail); }

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using (var client = new SmtpClient("smtp.live.com", 587)) { client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("myemail@live.com", "mypwd"); var mail = new MailMessage(); ... ... client.EnableSsl = true; client.Send(mail); }

Alternatively, you may refer OriginalGriff's examples: Sending an Email in C# with or without attachments: generic routine.

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Nice work
with a little tweak it works fine for me thanks, nice work Mustafa Hamed
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I am getting exception while running this code, i m using window 7 with vs 2010. Kindly guide me in this regard System.Net.Mail.SmtpException was unhandled Message=Failure sending mail. Source=System StackTrace: at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message) at EmailSender.SendMail(MailMessage mail) in C:\Users\Mughal\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\TestingEmail\TestingEmail\EmailSender.cs:line 158 at EmailSender.Send() in C:\Users\Mughal\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\TestingEmail\TestingEmail\EmailSender.cs:line 100 at TestingEmail.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Users\Mughal\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\TestingEmail\TestingEmail \Form1.cs:line 34 at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DebuggableCallback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessageW(MSG& msg) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ComponentManager.System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.IMsoComponentManager.FPushMessageLoop(IntPtr dwComponentID, Int32 reason, Int32 pvLoopData) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoopInner(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.RunMessageLoop(Int32 reason, ApplicationContext context) at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form mainForm) at TestingEmail.Program.Main() in C:\Users\Mughal\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\TestingEmail\TestingEmail\Program.cs:line 18 at System.AppDomain._nExecuteAssembly(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String[] args) at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly(String assemblyFile, Evidence assemblySecurity, String[] args) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.HostingProcess.HostProc.RunUsersAssembly() at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart() InnerException: System.IO.IOException Message=Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. Source=System StackTrace: at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at System.Net.DelegatedStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count) at System.Net.BufferedReadStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count) at System.Net.Mail.SmtpReplyReaderFactory.ReadLines(SmtpReplyReader caller, Boolean oneLine) at System.Net.Mail.SmtpReplyReaderFactory.ReadLine(SmtpReplyReader caller) at System.Net.Mail.CheckCommand.Send(SmtpConnection conn, String& response) at System.Net.Mail.StartTlsCommand.Send(SmtpConnection conn) at System.Net.Mail.SmtpConnection.GetConnection(ServicePoint servicePoint) at System.Net.Mail.SmtpTransport.GetConnection(ServicePoint servicePoint) at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.GetConnection() at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message) InnerException: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException Message=An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host Source=System ErrorCode=10054 NativeErrorCode=10054 StackTrace: at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags) at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) InnerException:
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My vote of 5
Nice work, keep it simple
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