Sending Mail with ASP.NET

Question

I'm relatively new to ASP.NET so sorry if this is a newbie question. I am trying to send an email with ASP.NET but it keeps throwing a:

500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

The error occurs as the point in which the mail is attempted to actually send. So all of this works fine:

Set myMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
myMail.Subject="Sending email with CDO"
myMail.From="[email protected]"
myMail.To="[email protected]"
myMail.TextBody="This is a message."

But the error is generated at this line always:

myMail.Send

So what could be causing this problem?

Answer 1

For ASP.NET you would be better off using the SmtpClient class in System.Net.

SmtpClient mailClient = new SmtpClient("mysmtpserver.somedomain.com",25);
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "My Name");
msg.To.Add("[email protected]");
msg.Subject = "This is the message subject";
msg.Body = "This is a message.";
mailClient.Send(msg);

Answer 2

To get a better idea of what is really causing the error, you might want to uncheck the "user friendly error messages" in your browser. Here's how in Internet Explorer

1. Open IE
2. Click the Tools Menu
3. Click Internet Options
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. Uncheck Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages
6. Click OK

See if you get any additional information there which might help you.