SMTP Gmail timing out

Question

Not sure why this is happening. Every where I've search tells me that i'm doing this right. But every time I try and send the mail, it times out on the smtpserver.Send(mail)

private void emailReport(string email_address,int begDatabaseCount, int endDatabaseCount)
        {
            SmtpClient smtpserver = new SmtpClient();
            MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
            smtpserver.EnableSsl = true;
            smtpserver.Port = 465;
            smtpserver.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";           
            smtpserver.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password");
            smtpserver.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
            mail = new MailMessage();
            mail.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("[email protected]", "ATR Reports");
            mail.To.Add(email_address);
            mail.Subject = "FNAS Report - " + DateTime.Now;
            mail.Body += "<u><b>FNAS Report for " + DateTime.Now + "</u></b>" + "\r\n \r\n";
            mail.Body += "Beginning Database Count - " + begDatabaseCount + "\r\n" + "\r\n";
            mail.Body += "End Database Count - " + endDatabaseCount + "\r\n" + "\r\n";
            mail.Body += "<b>Total Imported Orders = " + (endDatabaseCount - begDatabaseCount) + "<b>" + "\r\n" + "\r\n";
            mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

            smtpserver.Send(mail);
        }

Port 465 = Time Out after 1 minute

Port 587 = "The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required. "

Answer 1

This thread helped me. I'm not sure why this code worked and mine wasn't.

Sending email in .NET through Gmail

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;

var fromAddress = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "From Name");
var toAddress = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "To Name");
const string fromPassword = "fromPassword";
const string subject = "Subject";
const string body = "Body";

var smtp = new SmtpClient
           {
               Host = "smtp.gmail.com",
               Port = 587,
               EnableSsl = true,
               DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
               UseDefaultCredentials = false,
               Credentials = new NetworkCredential(fromAddress.Address, fromPassword)
           };
using (var message = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress)
                     {
                         Subject = subject,
                         Body = body
                     })
{
    smtp.Send(message);
}