SmtpClient with Gmail

Question

I\'m developing a mail client for a school project. I have managed to send e-mails using the SmtpClient in C#. This works perfectly with any server but it doesn

Answer 1

I think, you need to validate the server certificate that is used to establish the SSL connections.....

Use following code to send mail with validating server certificate.....

            this.client = new SmtpClient(_account.SmtpHost, _account.SmtpPort);
            this.client.EnableSsl = _account.SmtpUseSSL;
            this.client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(_account.Username, _account.Password);

        try
        {
            // Create instance of message
            MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

            // Add receivers
            for (int i = 0; i < email.Receivers.Count; i++)
                message.To.Add(email.Receivers[i]);

            // Set sender
            message.From = new MailAddress(email.Sender);

            // Set subject
            message.Subject = email.Subject;

            // Send e-mail in HTML
            message.IsBodyHtml = email.IsBodyHtml;

            // Set body of message
            message.Body = email.Message;

            //validate the certificate
            ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback =
            delegate(object s, X509Certificate certificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)
            { return true; };


            // Send the message
            this.client.Send(message);

            // Clean up
            message = null;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Could not send e-mail. Exception caught: " + e);
        }

Import System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates namespace to use ServicePointManager