Testing SMTP server is running via C#

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You can try saying EHLO to your server and see if it responds with 250 OK. Of course this test doesn’t guarantee you that you will succeed sending the mail later, but it is a good indication.

And here’s a sample:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        using (var client = new TcpClient())
        {
            var server = "smtp.gmail.com";
            var port = 465;
            client.Connect(server, port);
            // As GMail requires SSL we should use SslStream
            // If your SMTP server doesn't support SSL you can
            // work directly with the underlying stream
            using (var stream = client.GetStream())
            using (var sslStream = new SslStream(stream))
            {
                sslStream.AuthenticateAsClient(server);
                using (var writer = new StreamWriter(sslStream))
                using (var reader = new StreamReader(sslStream))
                {
                    writer.WriteLine("EHLO " + server);
                    writer.Flush();
                    Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadLine());
                    // GMail responds with: 220 mx.google.com ESMTP
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

And here’s the list of codes to expect.

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