SmtpMail.SmtpServer Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Web.Mail

Assembly:

System.Web.dll

Gets or sets the name of the SMTP relay mail server to use to send email messages. Recommended alternative: System.Net.Mail.

public:
 static property System::String ^ SmtpServer { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public static string SmtpServer { get; set; }

static member SmtpServer : string with get, set

Public Shared Property SmtpServer As String

Property Value

String

The name of the email relay server.

Examples

//This example assigns the name of the mail relay server on the 
//local network to the SmtpServer property.
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "RelayServer.Contoso.com";

' This example assigns the name of the mail relay server on the 
' local network to the SmtpServer property.
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "RelayServer.Contoso.com"

Remarks

If your local SMTP server (included with Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003) is behind a firewall that blocks any direct SMTP traffic (through port 25), you will need to find out if there is a smart host available on your network that is allowed to relay SMTP messages to the Internet.

A smart host is an SMTP server with the permissions to relay outgoing email messages directly to the Internet from internal SMTP servers. A smart host should be able to simultaneously connect to both the internal network and the Internet in order to work as the email gateway.