Comments on: Read system.net/mailSettings/smtp settings from web.config

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:20:04 +0000

Tip for anyone using IIS/Pickup folder and working off the Mail.dll example above.

If you are enumerating through a list of recipients you will want to create a unique file name for each email you save otherwise your loop will just keep overwriting the previous file you created.

In c# you can use: Guid.NewGuid() to get a unique value.

In the case of the Mail.dll example above you would write:

string saveFile = Guid.NewGuid().ToString() + ".eml";
email.Save(Path.Combine(pickupFolder, saveFile));

Hope that helps somebody.

By: Limilabs support

Limilabs support — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:00:53 +0000

In reply to Martin.

@Martin,

‘appSettings’ is a completely different section than ‘system.net’. ‘system.net’ section doesn’t support file attribute at all.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:47:56 +0000

Being able to use system.net/mailSettings/smtp settings from web.config is definately useful and great to see.. its a shame that it couldn’t also successfully read from the section as I have a project where customized site settings are held in an extended appSettings file= “web-nichesettings.config” file to keep a clean separation of concerns.

Having Mail.dll being able to hook up to SMTP in this way would keep the white label code even cleaner.