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

Try to play with EnableSsl. In msdn reason of exception:

EnableSsl is set to true, but the SMTP mail server did not advertise STARTTLS in the response to the EHLO command.

Also check StatusCode of the exception.