Sending email through Gmail SMTP server with C#

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CVertex, make sure to review your code, and, if that doesn’t reveal anything, post it. I was just enabling this on a test ASP.NET site I was working on, and it works.

Actually, at some point I had an issue on my code. I didn’t spot it until I had a simpler version on a console program and saw it was working (no change on the Gmail side as you were worried about). The below code works just like the samples you referred to:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net;

namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var client = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
            {
                Credentials = new NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "mypwd"),
                EnableSsl = true
            };
            client.Send("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "test", "testbody");
            Console.WriteLine("Sent");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

I also got it working using a combination of web.config, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w355a94k.aspx and code (because there is no matching EnableSsl in the configuration file 🙁 ).

2021 Update

By default you will also need to enable access for “less secure apps” in your gmail settings page: google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps. This is necessary if you are getting the exception “`The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required. – thanks to @Ravendarksky

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