To send mail using System.Net.Mail, you need to configure your SMTP service in your application's web.config
file using these values for mailSettings
:
<system.net> <mailSettings> <smtp from="your email address"> <network host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net" port="25" /> </smtp> </mailSettings> </system.net>
The network
rule's value will be used when you instantiate an SmtpClient
in your code.
You can then use code similar to this to send email from your application: