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

Either don't assign the port or don't use EnableSSL = true. Doing one of this will solve your problem.

You are trying to initiate a communication which is not allowed to be done this way.