How to set username and password for SmtpClient object in .NET?

Question

I see different versions of the constructor, one uses info from web.config, one specifies the host, and one the host and port. But how do I set the username and password to

Answer 1

Use NetworkCredential

Yep, just add these two lines to your code.

var credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password");

client.Credentials = credentials;