Sending mail using C# windows Forms

In this article we are going to see how to send mail using C# application in windows  forms, instead of login into the gmail account, just from the windows itself open the form and send the message to them .

For do this two class are used in c# ,  SmtpClient client which hold the host information,port number and credentials using this client we send message with the help of MailMessage Class.

  protected string SendEmail(string username, string password, string toAddress, string subject, string body)

        {

            string result = "Message Sent Successfully..!!";

            string senderID = username;

            string senderPassword = password;

            try

            {

                SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient

                {

                    Host = "smtp.gmail.com",

                    Port = 587,

                    EnableSsl = true,

                    DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,

                    Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(senderID, senderPassword),

                    Timeout = 30000,

                };

                MailMessage message = new MailMessage(senderID, toAddress, subject, body);

                smtp.Send(message);

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                result = "Error sending email.!!!";

            }

            return result;

        }

        private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(username.Text))

            {

                MessageBox.Show("Please fill the user id ");

                return;

            }

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(password.Password))

            {

                MessageBox.Show("Please fill the password");

                return;

            }

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Sender.Text))

            {

                MessageBox.Show("Please specify the Sender address");

                return;

            }

            try

            {

             MessageBox.Show(SendEmail(username.Text, password.Password, Sender.Text,                                 subject.Text, textBox5.Text));

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);

            }

}

Output :

I Hope this article will help for some of the basics how to send ,mail using c# application.