"RN" <replyinthegroup@please.com> wrote in message
news:JuOSd.23051$xX3.8037@twister.socal.rr.com...
>I am tired of sending mail from the built-in SMTP service for so many
> reasons (errors are nondescriptive in the event log, it doesn't let me
> control which IP address it sends from, and it identifies itself as the
> computer name which is not in domain.com format, triggering spam filter
> problems).
>
> Instead, I want to have my code send through an SMTP server of a company
> that we pay for mail service. But they require a username and password.
> How do I use something other than "localhost" for the Smtp Server and how
> do
> I pass the username and password?
>
>

"RN" <replyinthegroup@please.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, I'm excited to try it.
>
> Maybe you also know the answer to this very related question... Sometimes
> I
> send from aliases that are mapped on the POP3 server if someone did reply.
> For example, suppose I have a real account called sales@domain.com, and
> that's a real account that has a username and password that I can use in
> your example. But often I will send mail from something else like
> order-receipts@domain.com . There's no account for this, but I have an
> alias on the pop server that will map any incoming mail to order-receipts
> over to the real sales account. Obviously I still need to send from
> order-receipts, though. Using the SMTP server with IIS, this works fine.
> Now that I'm going to send through a 3rd party mail server, I'm wondering
> what will happen. Can I put anything I want in the mail.From field as
> long
> as it is at the same domain?
>
> Have you found out anything else, good or bad, about using this technique
> compared to the regular IIS SMTP service?
>
> Again, thanks very much. Yours was a perfect newsgroup reply!
>
>
> "Smithers" <JaySmithers@OnceOver.com> wrote in message
> news:eD6SxDTGFHA.3316@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> I recently hunted high and low for the same purpose. Here is what I
>> found.
>> It is apparently undocumented, but has been working for me very well. The
>> whole trick is in the mail.Fields.Add lines:
>>
>> System.Web.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();
>> mail.To = eMailRecipients; //"JohnDoe@Yahoo.com;JaneDoe@Yahoo.com";
>> mail.From = "Me@MyDomain.com";
>> mail.Subject = "Hello World!";
>> mail.Body = messageToGo;
>>
> mail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenti
> cate",
>> "1"); //basic authentication
>>
> mail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername
> ",
>> "MyFullUserNameHere"); //set your username here
>>
> mail.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword
> ",
>> "MyPasswordHere"); //set your password here
>>
>> System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "Mail.YourDomain.com"; //your smtp
>> server goes here
>> System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send( mail );
>>
>> If someone else has a better way I'd like to know.
>>
>> -Smithers
>>
>>
>>
>> "RN" <replyinthegroup@please.com> wrote in message
>> news:JuOSd.23051$xX3.8037@twister.socal.rr.com...
>> >I am tired of sending mail from the built-in SMTP service for so many
>> > reasons (errors are nondescriptive in the event log, it doesn't let me
>> > control which IP address it sends from, and it identifies itself as the
>> > computer name which is not in domain.com format, triggering spam filter
>> > problems).
>> >
>> > Instead, I want to have my code send through an SMTP server of a
>> > company
>> > that we pay for mail service. But they require a username and
>> > password.
>> > How do I use something other than "localhost" for the Smtp Server and
> how
>> > do
>> > I pass the username and password?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

"Smithers" <JaySmithers@OnceOver.com> wrote in message
news:eD6SxDTGFHA.3316@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I recently hunted high and low for the same purpose. Here is what I found.
> It is apparently undocumented, but has been working for me very well. The
> whole trick is in the mail.Fields.Add lines:
>
> System.Web.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();
> mail.To = eMailRecipients; //"JohnDoe@Yahoo.com;JaneDoe@Yahoo.com";
> mail.From = "Me@MyDomain.com";
> mail.Subject = "Hello World!";
> mail.Body = messageToGo;
>

> "1"); //basic authentication
>

> "MyFullUserNameHere"); //set your username here
>

> "MyPasswordHere"); //set your password here
>
> System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "Mail.YourDomain.com"; //your smtp
> server goes here
> System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send( mail );
>
> If someone else has a better way I'd like to know.
>
> -Smithers
>
>
>
> "RN" <replyinthegroup@please.com> wrote in message
> news:JuOSd.23051$xX3.8037@twister.socal.rr.com...
> >I am tired of sending mail from the built-in SMTP service for so many
> > reasons (errors are nondescriptive in the event log, it doesn't let me
> > control which IP address it sends from, and it identifies itself as the
> > computer name which is not in domain.com format, triggering spam filter
> > problems).
> >
> > Instead, I want to have my code send through an SMTP server of a company
> > that we pay for mail service. But they require a username and password.
> > How do I use something other than "localhost" for the Smtp Server and
how
> > do
> > I pass the username and password?
> >
> >
>
>