mailsettings

I'm storing my MailSettings in a web.config, however when I send the message, my SMTP server reports back that I need to use authentication. I've got my username/password in the config file, but it still fails. It works if I do the following, but it seems like an extra step. Shouldn't it just take it from the config file and use authentication automatically? System.Configuration.Configuration config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration( HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath); MailSettingsSectionGroup settings = (MailSettingsSectionGroup) config.GetSectionGroup("system.net

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/mailSettings approach, but as I understand it, that only allows one SMTP connection definition at a time, used by SmtpClient(). However, I need more of a connectionStrings-like approach, where I can pull a set of settings based on a key/name. Any recommendations? I'm open to skipping the tradintional SmtpClient/mailSettings approach, and I think will have to... I needed to have different smtp configurations in the web.config depending on