Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

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 2 million, yes million pieces of certified SPAM each week! Where does it all come from, well ...

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 have to deal with is unhandled exceptions, we all have them good and bad developers. The ...

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 an entry explaining how to send an e-mail in ASP.NET and wanted to do a quick follow up on ...

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 sending of a message. There are classes for attachments, notification options, ...