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If you normally read this blog you may be wondering why I am posting it, trust me it needs to be done. Setting up an e-mail account in Outlook is one of the simplest tasks to do on the Internet. First open Microsoft Outlook, next open the tools menu as
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This is the third in a series of posts on using the new ASP.NET WebMatrix tool. Today we are going to add automated E-Mail functionality. Again the Html Helpers make this a very easy task. Creating the Contact Form Adding Database Storage Continuing where
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I see this question asked over and over in the ASP.NET forums and many times the answer is you have to have an SMTP server on your local machine. The person asking the question is usually under the wrong impression that setting the SMTP server property
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Late last month I made a post about testing E-Mail functionality with Donovan Brown’s Neptune . Several of you made comments about other utilities and methods that may be used to test SMTP (that’s E-Mail for those of you in Rio Linda) facilities in your
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One of the most common questions I see on ASP.NET forums relates to sending E-Mail. I have addressed many of those issues already, so I wont get into how to send E-Mail from an ASP.NET web site. This week I have been working on testing applications and
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SPAM infects all of our lives. As much as we actually get I bet your e-mail provider has probably blocked about 100-1000 pieces of SPAM you never saw. I host around 500 e-mail accounts and probably 900 actual addresses on my mail server. I block around
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A few months ago I made an entry reviewing how to send e-mail from an ASP.NET page , today I am going to extend that entry a little an show how you can make a simple exception reporting utility for your web pages. One of the terrible things we as developers
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One of the big improvements in the configuration and maintenance of ASP.NET Web sites for version 2.0 is the ability to define common settings such as connection strings and mail server in a structured section of the web.config file. I previously made
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While for most sending an E-Mail message tends to be fairly trivial to seasoned .NET programmers, a new .NET programmer might find it a little mysterious. .NET has all this functionality wrapped up for us in the System.Net.Mail namespace to maange the
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