To authenticate with System.Net.Mail is much more intuitive than it was with
System.Web.Mail. No longer do you have to set a fields property. Instead, you
simply create a NetworkCredential's object, and set the username and password.
Below is an example setting the username and password.
[ C# ]
static void Authenticate()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
//to authenticate we set the username and password properites on the SmtpClient
smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "secret");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
[ VB.NET ]
Sub Authenticate()
'create the mail message
Dim mail As New MailMessage()
'set the addresses
mail.From = New MailAddress("me@mycompany.com")
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com")
'set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email"
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email."
'send the message
Dim smtp As New SmtpClient("127.0.0.1")
'to authenticate we set the username and password properites on the SmtpClient
smtp.Credentials = New NetworkCredential("username", "secret")
smtp.Send(mail)
End Sub 'Authenticate