Cannot use Gmail smtp from Azure Cloud Service

Question

My code for sending email through Gmail's smtp:

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587);
client.EnableSsl = true;
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("my_user_name", "my_password");

MailMessage message =
     new MailMessage(new MailAddress("[email protected]"), new MailAddress("[email protected]"));
message.Body = "body";
message.Subject = "subject";
client.Send(message);

The code works on my local machine and when I publish at Azure as "Web Site".

BUT when I publish in a "Cloud Service" I get this exception:

 System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: The SMTP server requires a secure connection
 or the client was not authenticated. The server response was:
 5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at

Is there anything that differ a Windows Azure "Web site" from a "Cloud Service" that could have this effect?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use following SMTP settings in Web.config:

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
        <smtp deliveryMethod="Network">
            <network defaultCredentials="false" enableSsl="true" host="smtp.gmail.com" port="587" userName="[email protected]" password="xxxxxxxxxxx"/>
        </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
</system.net>

I think you are passing wrong credentials. Use @gmail.com suffix in your user name and try to set bodyhtml property true also...

Hope this will work for you.. It always work correctly to me..

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