Sending mail error: "Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.Net.Mail.MailAdd
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 to create an application that sends email, using authorization. But for some reason i get the error
| Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'System.Net.Mail.MailAddress |
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using this code:
SmtpClient server = new SmtpClient("my.server");
server.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "pass"); MailMessage epost = new MailMessage();
email.From = "from";
email.To = "to";
email.Subject = "subject";
email.Body = "message";
try
{
server.Send(email);
}
catch (SmtpFailedRecipientException error)
{
MessageBox.Show("error: " + error.Message + "\nFailing recipient: " + error.FailedRecipient);
} |
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Does anyone know whats wrong?
Hi,
There are actually 2 issues with the code snippet. Here is the working one below:
1.] You need to use the MailAddress class for assigning the From Address
2.] You need to actually Add to the MailAddressCollection exposed by the To field and cannot assign an address directly.
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SmtpClient server = new SmtpClient("my.server");
server.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "pass");
MailMessage email = new MailMessage();
email.From = new MailAddress("FromAddress");
email.To.Add("ToAddress");
email.Subject = "subject";
email.Body = "message";
try{
server.Send(email);
}
catch (SmtpFailedRecipientException error)
{
MessageBox.Show("error: " + error.Message + "\nFailing recipient: " + error.FailedRecipient);
}
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Regards,
Vikram
