Setting multiple SMTP settings in web.config?

Question

I am building an app that needs to dynamically/programatically know of and use different SMTP settings when sending email.

I\'m used to using the system.net/mailSet

Answer 1

This may or may not help someone but in case you got here looking for Mandrill setup for multiple smtp configurations I ended up creating a class that inherits from the SmtpClient class following this persons code here which is really nice: https://github.com/iurisilvio/mandrill-smtp.NET

    /// 

/// Overrides the default SMTP Client class to go ahead and default the host and port to Mandrills goodies.
/// 
public class MandrillSmtpClient : SmtpClient
{

    public MandrillSmtpClient( string smtpUsername, string apiKey, string host = "smtp.mandrillapp.com", int port = 587 )
        : base( host, port )
    {

        this.Credentials = new NetworkCredential( smtpUsername, apiKey );

        this.EnableSsl = true;
    }
}

Here's an example of how to call this:

        [Test]
    public void SendMandrillTaggedEmail()
    {

        string SMTPUsername = _config( "MandrillSMTP_Username" );
        string APIKey = _config( "MandrillSMTP_Password" );

        using( var client = new MandrillSmtpClient( SMTPUsername, APIKey ) ) {

            MandrillMailMessage message = new MandrillMailMessage() 
            { 
                From = new MailAddress( _config( "FromEMail" ) ) 
            };

            string to = _config( "ValidToEmail" );

            message.To.Add( to );

            message.MandrillHeader.PreserveRecipients = false;

            message.MandrillHeader.Tracks.Add( ETrack.opens );
            message.MandrillHeader.Tracks.Add( ETrack.clicks_all );

            message.MandrillHeader.Tags.Add( "NewsLetterSignup" );
            message.MandrillHeader.Tags.Add( "InTrial" );
            message.MandrillHeader.Tags.Add( "FreeContest" );


            message.Subject = "Test message 3";

            message.Body = "love, love, love";

            client.Send( message );
        }
    }