SmtpClient.SendMailAsync method is hanging when sending a big amount of mails

Question

I am trying to send a lot of emails to using SmtpClient.SendMailAsync method. Here is my test method that I call from the simple console application.

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        SendMailsOnebyOneAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();

    }


    public static async Task SendMailsOnebyOneAsync()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
        {
            try
            {
                using (SmtpClient sMail = new SmtpClient("XXX"))
                {
                    sMail.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
                    sMail.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
                    sMail.Credentials = null;

                    var fromMailAddress = new MailAddress("XXX");
                    var toMailAddress = new MailAddress("XXX");

                    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(fromMailAddress, toMailAddress)
                    {
                        Subject = "test"
                    };

                    await sMail.SendMailAsync(message);

                    Console.WriteLine("Sent {0}", i);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
        }
    }

Sometimes the method is hanging - it awaits to SendMailAsync which seems stuck and doesn't return.

I see one related question SmtpClient SendMailAsync sometimes never returns . But there is no fix suggested that works for me.

When I tried to use the synchronous method SmtpClient.Send everything is OK and application never hangs.

Does anybody have any idea what is wrong?

Answer 1

One on my colleague pointed me to the fact that SmtpClient is actually obsolete and Microsoft recommends not to use it.

See the following link.

     ************ Update ***********

I have tried to use MailKit as recommended in the link. The same scenario is working perfectly with MailKit for both non async and async sending.

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