SmtpMail Question

[Terry Olsen]

Evidently the SmtpMail class doesn't throw an exception when the SMTP server
returns an error? It just lets you happily think the email was sent when
actually it was rejected by the SMTP server. I found this out by having my
app connect to DevNull's Dummy SMTP server. Seems I was sending just the
@domain part of the "FROM" address. Correcting that got my emails going.

Now, how do I get the From to display a friendly name instead of my email
address? I tried several variations of setting MailMessage.From="My Program
<[email protected]>". But everything I tried got rejected by the SMTP server
unless I only used the email address itself. I'm thinking I need to add the
"From: My Program" and "Reply-To: (e-mail address removed)" headers to the email
but I'm not sure how to do that.

Appreciate any help.

Thanks.

 

[Kevin Thomas]

The correct form to get a friendly name showing up in the From field is:
Mail.From = "MyName <[email protected]>"
which it looks like is what you are doing so you might have another problem.

To add a reply-to header do this:
Mail.Headers.Add("reply-to", "(e-mail address removed)")

Kevin