I am having a very hard time trying to send an email through an a2 hosting account. I know the code is correct as I have the same code sending emails through the Google SMTP. I was wondering if anyone had any experience or examples using a2 hosting email and SMTP c#. I've read through their documentation and it states to use [email protected] for the username and then your password. For the server you can use the full domain name or the server name. For the port it says 587 or 465. I have tried a combination of all of these things and have not been able to connect. I keep getting this exception
"Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed."
Thank you for any help.
Below is an example of the code I am using.
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
MailAddress fromAddress = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
NetworkCredential myCred = new NetworkCredential(
"[email protected]", "mypassword");
smtpClient.Host = "mydomain.a2hosted.com";
//smtpClient.Credentials = myCred;
smtpClient.Port = 587;
smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
smtpClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
smtpClient.Credentials = myCred;
message.From = fromAddress;
message.Subject = "your subject";
//Set IsBodyHtml to true means you can send HTML email.
message.IsBodyHtml = true;
message.Body = "<h1>your message body</h1>";
message.To.Add("[email protected]");
smtpClient.Send(message);
All in here.
Replace domain.a2hosted.com with your own domain name. Replace [email protected] with the name of an e-mail account you created in Plesk. Replace password with the password for the e-mail account you specified in the previous step.
From my config file.
<mailSettings>
<smtp from="[email protected]">
<network enableSsl="false"
defaultCredentials="false" host="yourdomain"
password="yourpassword" port="25"
userName="youremailaddress" />
</mailSettings>