Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Programmer's Cookbook

Send E-Mail Through SMTP

Problem

You want to send an e-mail address using a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server.

Solution

Use the SmtpMail and MailMessage classes in the System.Web.Mail namespace.

Discussion

The classes in the System.Web.Mail namespace provide a bare-bones wrapper for the Collaboration Data Objects for Windows 2000 (CDOSYS) component. They allow you to compose and send formatted e-mail messages using SMTP.

Using these types is easy. You simply create a MailMessage object, specify the sender and recipient e-mail address, and place the message content in the Body property:

Dim MyMessage As New MailMessage() MyMessage.To = "[e-mail]" MyMessage.From = "[e-mail]" MyMessage.Subject = "Hello" MyMessage.Priority ...