SMTP on Windows XP Pro

[R. Ian Lee]

I'm using the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail object (.NET 1.1)
to send email from an ASP.NET application. Everything
works fine when I run it from Windows 2000 Server, but
not from WinXP Pro. Is it not possible to send mail
using the SMTP service or XP? Is there a different class
that I should be using? I don't really need to send
email from XP, but since I'm doing my development from XP
it's really slows down debugging to have to comment out
these lines everytime I need to debug.

Thanks!

Ian

[R. Ian Lee]

I have it installed, but not running. I tried re-
installing it and still no luck. The ASP.NET application
gives the following error:

The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.

Thanks,

Ian

>-----Original Message-----
>Ian,
> Did you install the SMTP service in XP Pro? It's

an optional

>component so it's not always installed (under Control

Panel | Add/Remove

>Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components). Otherwise,

not all the supporting

>features may be installed for the mail classes, such as

CDO which the mail

>functions typically wrap around.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark Fitzpatrick
> Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
>
>"R. Ian Lee" <ian.lee@jacobs.com> wrote in message
>news:030c01c34713$9c4a6da0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

>> I'm using the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail object (.NET

1.1)

>> to send email from an ASP.NET application. Everything
>> works fine when I run it from Windows 2000 Server, but
>> not from WinXP Pro. Is it not possible to send mail
>> using the SMTP service or XP? Is there a different

class

>> that I should be using? I don't really need to send
>> email from XP, but since I'm doing my development from

XP

>> it's really slows down debugging to have to comment out
>> these lines everytime I need to debug.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ian

>
>
>.
>

[dave wanta]

Hi Ian,
Without seeing your code, I'm guessing you didn't set the
SmtpMail.SmtpServer property.

Set this property, even if it is local.

ex:
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "127.0.0.1";

Let me know if that works.

Cheers!
Dave
[url]www.aspNetEmail.com[/url]

"R. Ian Lee" <ian.lee@jacobs.com> wrote in message news:<0ccf01c3472a$6c1f1240$a001280a@phx.gbl>...

> I have it installed, but not running. I tried re-
> installing it and still no luck. The ASP.NET application
> gives the following error:
>
> The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>

> >-----Original Message-----
> >Ian,
> > Did you install the SMTP service in XP Pro? It's

> an optional

> >component so it's not always installed (under Control

> Panel | Add/Remove

> >Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components). Otherwise,

> not all the supporting

> >features may be installed for the mail classes, such as

> CDO which the mail

> >functions typically wrap around.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Mark Fitzpatrick
> > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
> >
> >"R. Ian Lee" <ian.lee@jacobs.com> wrote in message
> >news:030c01c34713$9c4a6da0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> >> I'm using the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail object (.NET

> 1.1)

> >> to send email from an ASP.NET application. Everything
> >> works fine when I run it from Windows 2000 Server, but
> >> not from WinXP Pro. Is it not possible to send mail
> >> using the SMTP service or XP? Is there a different

> class

> >> that I should be using? I don't really need to send
> >> email from XP, but since I'm doing my development from

> XP

> >> it's really slows down debugging to have to comment out
> >> these lines everytime I need to debug.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Ian

> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Tian Min Huang]

Hi Lan,

Please use smarthost.

> MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
> mail.From = "from@somewhere.com";
> mail.To = "ekimgnow@microsoft.com";
> mail.Subject = "subject";
> mail.Body = "message!";
> mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
> SmtpMail.SmtpServer= "smarthost";
> SmtpMail.Send(mail);

SMTPMail does work on XP Pro. We do it all the time. But please pay
attention to smarthost relay, it may cause the email relay. Thanks.

Regards,
HuangTM
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

[msnews.microsoft.com]

That partly solves my problem. This solves the problem if the SMTP service
is running, however, if the service is not running I still get an error
stating "The transport failed to connect to the server." Since this is a
development machine and I do not want the emails to actually go anywhere
except the "Pickup" directory I prefer not to have this service running.
This isn't a problem using Windows 2K Server. Is this normal behavior for
XP or am I missing a setting somewhere? Otherwise, how am I supposed to
inspect emails during development without actually sending them?

Thanks!!!

Ian



"dave wanta" <google2@123aspx.com> wrote in message
news:e28722d8.0307130343.678b9d24@posting.google.c om...

> If you are getting the standard relay error. Open up the SMTP Service
> properties, and on the Access tab, click the Relay button.Grant access
> to 127.0.0.1 to "relay through this virutal server."
>
> hth,
> Dave
> [url]www.aspNetEmail.com[/url]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "R. Ian Lee" <ian.lee@jacobs.com> wrote in message

news:<02bd01c347dd$46014a20$a301280a@phx.gbl>...

> > This seems to work...sort of. It is now trying to
> > connect to the SMTP server, but since I do not have the
> > SMTP service running (because I don't want the email to
> > actually be sent) I am getting the following error:
> >
> > "The transport failed to connect to the server."
> >
> > Using SmtpMail.SmtpServer="smarthost" returns this error
> > even if the service is running. But, if I set
> > SmtpMail.SmtpServer="127.0.0.1" and start the service
> > then I get a "cannot relay" error which seems to indicate
> > that everything is working. Unfortunately, this is not
> > the behavior I was expecting. When I develop using
> > Windows 2000 Server as my OS, I do not get this error.
> > The messages are simply dropped into the "Pickup"
> > directory but my application thinks that they are
> > delivered OK. Using Windows XP, it seems that the errors
> > are sent back to my application immediately. Is there
> > some setting that I need to set in XP to get this same
> > behavior as I get when using Windows 2000 Server?
> >
> > Thanks!!!
> > Ian
> >

> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Hi Lan,
> > >
> > >Please use smarthost.
> > >
> > >> MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
> > >> mail.From = "from@somewhere.com";
> > >> mail.To = "ekimgnow@microsoft.com";
> > >> mail.Subject = "subject";
> > >> mail.Body = "message!";
> > >> mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;
> > >> SmtpMail.SmtpServer= "smarthost";
> > >> SmtpMail.Send(mail);
> > >
> > >SMTPMail does work on XP Pro. We do it all the time.

> > But please pay

> > >attention to smarthost relay, it may cause the email

> > relay. Thanks.

> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >HuangTM
> > >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and

> > confers no rights.

> > >
> > >.
> > >