Use managed service account with ELMAH to send email

Question

Is it possible to use a Windows managed service account to send ELMAH exceptions? Here's a sample errorEmail from Web.config; would it still have a password attribute?

<elmah>
    <errorMail from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" async="true" 
        subject="MyApp Exception thrown: {0}" userName="[email protected]" 
        password="" smtpServer="smtp.mydomain.org"/>
</elmah>

Answer 1

We didn't need to use an MSA; answer was too simple: don't include the credentials in the errorMail properties:

<elmah>
     <errorMail from="[email protected]" to="[email protected]" 
          async="true" subject="MyApp Exception thrown: {0}" 
          smtpServer="smtp.mydomain.org"/>
</elmah>

Note we also changed the "from" to a fake "noreply" email, as we don't want replies. Also, we can't use a Win service account to send emails, as described by Microsoft:

Exchange Server does not allow you to send e-mails from a managed service account on behalf of a service or application. To overcome this limitation, use the managed service account to run the service, but create a separate conventional user account for the service and configure the service to send e-mails using this account.

That's for Server 2008 but seems to be true for the latest ones as well. Special thanks to our Ops team for this answer.