vb.net send email

Question

I was wondering how I could send an email from within a vb application? Can any one assist in where to begin?

Answer 1

Use the SmtpClient class within the System.Net.Mail namespace

Example.

'create the mail message
Dim mail As New MailMessage()

'set the addresses
mail.From = New MailAddress("xx@xx")
mail.[To].Add("xx@xx")

'set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email"
mail.Body = "this is a sample body"

'set the server
Dim smtp As New SmtpClient("localhost")

'send the message
Try
    smtp.Send(mail)
    Response.Write("Your Email has been sent sucessfully - Thank You")
Catch exc As Exception
    Response.Write("Send failure: " & exc.ToString())
End Try

Answer 2

You can use the System.Net.Mail namespace, look it up and see if it helps. I use C# but I imagine it is similar, create a client, then a message, set params of the message and then client.Send() will send the message.