send email from MVC 4 ASP.NET app

Question

I am trying to setup simple but complete ASP.NET MVC 4 web app, where I can send email to specific address, I configure the web.config file for SMPT settings and code in controller call, but I am getting error message "The SMTP host was not specified"

<system.net>
<mailSettings>
  <smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="[email protected]">
    <network host="smtp.live.com" port="25" userName="[email protected]" password="myPassword" defaultCredentials="true"/>
  </smtp>
</mailSettings>

in controller class

var mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.To.Add("[email protected]");
mailMessage.Subject = "testing 2 ";
mailMessage.Body = "Hello Mr. Aderson";
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;

var smptClient = new SmtpClient { EnableSsl = false };

smptClient.Send(mailMessage);

many thanks

Solution 1

Best Idea to use SMTP mail functionality in .NET + MVC/ASP is this open source codeplex library:

http://higlabo.codeplex.com/

Especially since the default-delivered components in .NET framework does fully support all types of SSL/TSL etc. (implicit/explicit mode as keyword here)

http://higlabo.codeplex.com/

Solution 2

From a quick look you haven't set up the "From" property.

var mailMessage = new MailMessage();
mailMessage.To.Add("[email protected]");
mailMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
mailMessage.Subject = "testing 2 ";
mailMessage.Body = "Hello Mr. Aderson";
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;