Shiran's Blog: Drop emails in a folder

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Drop emails in a folder

10:29 PM |

Posted by Sheen |

Instead sending an email we can configure the web.config to drop the mail in a local folder.
This is a good feature when it come to testing email on your application while developing.

Just add the following on the web.config

   1:     <system.net>

   2:       <mailSettings>

   3:         <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">

   4:        <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\testmails\"/>

   5:         </smtp>

   6:       </mailSettings>

   7:      </system.net>

Following code will drop an email in your folder

   1: var smtpClient = new SmtpClient();

   2: var message = new MailMessage("from@from.com", "to@to.com");

   3: message.Subject = "This is the mail subject";

   4: message.Body = "this is the mailm body";

   5: smtpClient.Send(message);

Double click on the file in your C:\testmails\ folder it will open up on outlook
as an email.

Shiran's Blog

Drop emails in a folder

0 comments:

My Achievements

Member of

Blog Archive

Important Blogs

Followers