What caused the Socket Exception while sending email from Console application?

Question

I\'m trying to write a basic console app that will send an email. The problem is that I keep getting the Socket exception:

An attempt was made to acc

Answer 1

I had very similar situation once and it turned out that the antivirus was just blocking that port. Your possible options are listed here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/br/transactsql/thread/c083c2c6-f74e-42cd-a811-4329ff7aa5f1