visual studio 2008 - asp.net mvc framework, automatically send e-mail

Question

I want my asp.net mvc framework system to send an e-mail everytime a certain action (inside a certain controller) is fired off. Are there any third party libraries or .net standard ways to accomplish this?

Answer 1

A more up to date method would be to use System.Net.Mail - this is the 2.0 replacement for System.Web.Mail.

Something like this, called from either a BaseController (if there are other controllers that need this) the actual controller in question.

I have the following code inside a static class to handle mailing simple plain text items from the server:

internal static void SendEmail(MailAddress fromAddress, MailAddress toAddress, string subject, string body)
{
    var message = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress)
                      {
                          Subject = subject,
                          Body = body
                      };

    var client = new SmtpClient("smtpServerName");
    client.Send(message);
}

Obviously, you'd probably want some error handling etc in there - Send can throw an exception for example if the server is refusing connections.