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Send emails using ASP.NET & WebHost4Life.com?

Has anyone been able to send emails programattically using ASP.NET on a website hosted at for the shared hosting company WebHost4Life?

Their tech support has been anything but helpful, providing ZERO guidance on what utilities to run ON THEIR SERVERS, rather stating that they do not offer any programming support! 

I've tried using System.Web.Mail, ASPMail, and CDONTS to no avail. 

If anyone got this to work, please let me know how! 

Thanks in advance! 

- Frustrated Scooter

Posted: Dec 23 2004, 09:42 AM by Scott Dockendorf | with 11 comment(s)
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Luis F. said:

Hi, I have hosting also on webhost4life, and I have DotNetNuke, I think DNN uses System.Web.Mail (I can't say for sure I will check later) and I can send mail, but you have to use mail.webhost4life.com as Smtp Server
# December 23, 2004 10:55 AM

Matt Hawley said:

Same here, so I switched over to FreeSMTP (http://www.quiksoft.com/freesmtp/) and it works great. Plus, its all Managed Code, no COM calls!
# December 23, 2004 10:57 AM

Jeff Perrin said:

Try using mail.webhost4life.com as your outgoing mail server, with System.Web.Mail. I haven't had any problems, although I seem to remember it took me a little digging to find that server. It's set up specifically for SMTP for their clients.
# December 23, 2004 11:21 AM

Denny said:

do you need to use the server there? are you sending the email to a mail server there or to someone else?

for example if you were using a windows 2000 or 2003 server @ wh4life to send an email to me @my mailserver then it should work as you are making a tcp connection to my host on port 25.

thats what system.web.mail does in the end... thats what all mail programs do to deliver a message.


check with: http://www.systemwebmail.net/
for tips onn how to add some testing and debugging code to your app.
you want to make sure it's configured right and un-wraps any com exception codes.
# December 23, 2004 11:30 AM

Anthony Alvarado said:

You need to use mail.webhost4life.com as SMTP server.
Or contact the wh3l support at http://www.my-online-help.com
# December 23, 2004 12:04 PM

Paul Wilson said:

The only problem I've had with email was trying to get email from their server back to me for automated notifications. Getting it to other people has always worked, but for some reason they have problems at time getting emails to work that are purely internal among their own servers. I've had one or two friends that had problems getting email to me, or maybe me to them, that were also on W4L -- again something internal only. They've usually been able to fix these things, but only if I'm persistent in reminding them that this is their own internal issue again and that all external email comes and goes correctly.
# December 23, 2004 3:34 PM

Scott Dockendorf said:

Thanks to everyone who offered their help - I really appreciate it! Changing the mail server corrected the problem! Thanks!
# December 28, 2004 2:27 PM

Horons said:

Need to set smtp "mail.yourdomain.com" and

http://www.Webhost4life.org

require

SMTP authentication!

RGS,

Horon

# November 30, 2008 7:51 AM

Honest Politician said:

helpdesk.mysite4now.com/.../article.bml

# September 18, 2010 3:54 AM

ed said:

great internet site My goal is to add this website in order to our facebook . as well

# March 29, 2011 10:55 AM

Mohammed said:

I tried to put the SMTP Server ( Localhost )

everything was going well without authentication :D

# April 13, 2011 2:47 PM
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