Configuration :: PasswordRecovery Control: "SMTP Host Was Not Specified." Nightmare?
Jan 17, 2011
Firstly, I'm a newbie to ASP.net, but have around ten years of ('classic') ASP and VB6 experience.I have spent the last 12 hours or so googling for a solution to this problem, so it's nothing obvious (to myself or anyone else I can find talking about it, at least). Things I have ruled out so far include:1) Lack of SMTP server (fixed)2) Firewall issues3) Web.config <mailsettings> directivesI am developing my app locally (VS-2010, Windows 7 Premium ). When I kick off my application containing a form with the PasswordRecovery control in it, and run the password recovery control, I get the error:
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This I figured is because I am running Windows 7, which doesn't have IIS7.5 (and thus an SMTP server) running by default. So I enabled IIS 7.5 in component settings, and lo and behold there it was. However there was no SMTP server included (those kind folk at Microsoft like to randomly remove things in system upgrades).So I dug around and installed a free smtp mailserver "hMailServer", and set it up with a the relay mail server address I use with my O2 email, with default credentials.I ran the test and it confirmed that I was indeed reaching the server OK. It also said I could therefore reference Localhost as my smtp server.I also realised I was missing the web.config <mailsettings> directives, so included (under <system.net> <mailsettings>):
<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from ="zenid@here.com">
<network host="localhost" defaultCredentials="true" port="20" />
</smtp>
My PasswordRecovery Control is not working. It is giving me SMTP problem. I set my proper gmail address with port number, valid user name and password. But not working? Do I require to set more settings?
The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. pg3sm5232120pbc.2
i have a web application in which i have a emailing module. in which i am currently using gmail smtp host but i need to allow any or all smtp host account to be used for sending emails like yahoo , hotmail etc.
for sending a mail i need to have port no , .Host, and .EnableSsl there r many many smtp host used for emailing . how do i configure my emailing modue to accomodate all the possible smtp host and set their host , port & enable ss1 so that any one using the emailing module can set their smtp host and use the module for emailing
Is there any easy way of setting a failure text within the PasswordRecovery control?
I want to be able to notify users that there was a problem with sending an email. Is there a failure - counterpart to the SuccessTemplate i can use or is there any other template/control within the passwordRecovery control whose value can be set in a handler to the onsendmailerror event?
(Please don't send MSDN links to PasswordRecovery or onsendmailerror, i've read them)
The question: Is it possible to configure multiple SMTP servers or update the SMTP object server information at runtime?
Description of problem: The site I'm working on has a few pages which send emails. Our site is using Gmail so even though it's a custom domain our email is sent out though Gmail SMTP servers.
Some emails come from the system and some emails come from users in certain groups. I have an SMTP server configured with the admin email for the system e.g. admin@mysite.com This works fine and when I get the email it shows from admin@mysite.comOne of our user groups let's call it "groupA" has an email configured on our domain i.e. groupA@mysite.com When I send the email and specify a from address for the MailMessage object as groupA@mysite.com it still shows up in my outlook as coming from admin@mysite.com I did a little further testing and if I specify both the from address and the ReplyTo as groupA@mysite.com it will show as From=admin@mysite.com but when I choose reply in outlook it shows groupA@mysite.com My best guess is that Gmail is overwriting the From address with the SMTP user to prevent email spoofing.
I found this: http://www.systemnetmail.com/faq/4.1.aspx but it won't work for me since group A, B, and C all need to send emails from the same page.
When I first published my site, I tested it using my gmail account and worked like a charm first try (a rare feat for me ;) ). Now, I'd like to finish it up by having it send the emails from the account at the host. No joy... I asked the host if I had misunderstood the rather unhelpful info in the control panel and they advised that in my web config I should change:
I want to send email thought asp.net page for that I need to find SMTP Host and port number below is my code
Dim EMail As New MailMessage EMail.From = New MailAddress(Emailtaxebox.Text) EMail.[To].Add(New MailAddress("sa@gmail.com")) EMail.Subject = Firstnametextbox.Text + lastnametextbox.Text + "Registerd" EMail.Body = " This is content " EMail.IsBodyHtml = True
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how to find SMTP port and host name ? I used default one its gives me error.No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
I have asked the following question multiple times but did not receive any proper reply.
I have a web page which is using PasswordRecovery control.
Its working fine but I have a scenario in which I have to disable Viewstate for the whole application.
Now after disabling viewstate when I visit the webpage I have noticed that PasswordRecovery controls is not working (Every times when I submit the default button to go to step 2, the postback occur but not moving to step 2).
I want to use PasswordRecovery control in modalpopup. After successfully completing first step of password recovery.I close the modal popup and now again when i open modal popup it shows with second step of the password recovery. But I want default first step when user close the modal popup.
I've been running a customer's webapplication using automatically generated email for some time, being hosted on our company's web server. Send mail was done using the System.Net.Mail API using a 3rd party SMTP server. The configuration has been done in the web.config in the system.net section, something like this:
Everything worked fine until we had to migrate to another hosting service; since then, send mail didn't work any longer with symtomatic "timeout" exceptions. We also tried using gmail and changing/omitting explicit port number specification, without any success. The server is running IIS 6 (Windows Server 2003 R2).
For reasons to long to go in to I have to change the behaviour/appearance of the Success page on our password recovery page.
We've been tasked with making the Success template identical to the UserName template i.e. with a label and text box for UserName and identical messages on both pages.
Basically our client wants no difference between successful password retireval and failure - the same message will display regardless e.g. "An email has been sent to <username> with your password."
Which reminds me - in the success/failure message they'd like the entered UserName to appear but I can only get it to appear if it's a valid username - if it's nonsense the UserName is blank.
I have a password recovery control on my login page. I want to have it send the user specified (and after question/answer filled out correctly) password in an email. I keep throwing an error though, saying that the SMTP needs authentication. I've used a lot of email capabilities in my application, but I set all the SmtpClient properties programmatically, so I never had to rely on system.net mailSettings section of the web.config file. But now I am relying on it, because I am not intercepting any events (unless that would be easiest) of the password recovery control. Here is my system.net excerpt from my web.config file:
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What am I not doing here to specify SMTP authentication? Why am I throwing this error? I'm putting my credentials in there with username and password. Am I not configuring the PasswordRecovery control correctly?
After entering username and keying enter key(from keyboard) it was not firing submitbutton_click event. So i have added defaultbutton property in the panel control, and it is working fine. And my problem here is..
Clicking on submit button it is showing security question. After answering the security question, i have to click on the submit button either by mouse click or tab enter.
What i need to do is.. after answering the security question, I should be able to hit enter key instead of mouse clicking on submit button.
I have a web page which is using PasswordRecovery control.
But I have a scenario in which I have to disable Viewstate for the whole application.
Now after disabling viewstate when I visit the webpage I have noticed that PasswordRecovery controls is not working (Every times when I submit the default button to go to step 2, the postback occur but not moving to step 2).
Example scenario in an ASP.NET application using SQL Server membership provider :
1) a user can't remember their exact password, and tries many times in a short space of time to login with an invalid password (say 5 times in a 10 minute window). This locks out the user (i.e. sets the IsLockedOut flag of the aspnet_Membership table to 1).
2) user goes to the "forgot my password" screen to try to get a new password emailed to them. This screen uses the PasswordRecovery control. User enters their correct user id, but then cannot go further in the password recovery process, since the IsLockedOut flag is 1. (They don't even get to see their security question).
3) The user would then have to phone tech support to get themselves unlocked etc.
To reduce the burden on support staff, we are trying to reduce the times step 3 is required, by making the PasswordRecovery control (if possible), work with locked out users. i.e. when they enter their login ID, the security question comes up, and IF they enter the correct answer, the system will unlock the user, and email the new temporary password to them. I'm wondering if it is possible to tweak the PasswordRecovery control to do this.
I am using password recovery control in forgotpassword.aspx page. By default the password recovery control validates the Login id and the security question of a particular user. But i want to give an alternate option. That is, If the user forgets the security answer he can give his PAN Number as identificaiton. Its should be an option like either he can provide security answer or his PAN number. Can we acheive this functionality. Because from my knowledge it looks like Security Answer is mandatory. But i want to provide alternate option that user should give his security answer, if he forgets he can use PAN number for his identificaition. UpmMembershipProvider has default property (requiresQuestionAndAnswer) which is set as true.
i am working on a personal website, so obviously it's not a company website which have exchange server or anything like that
I know how to setup SMTP but what details should i give for SMTP service ? i mean my yahoo/hotmail/gmail account will work, setting up SMTP is really important for the website i am working on to recieve and send e-mail how to do that for a personal website when there is no exchange server ?
Is it possible to use the PasswordRecovery control to recover a password using the email address instead of the user name?
Ideally I'd like to have the PasswordRecovery control allow users to enter their email address instead of their user name and then proceed to answer the security question.
i need to encrypt the SMTP settings for my web site, i tryed the aspnet_regiis.exe pe... but i got an error this is not a valid virtual dir. i have the website on the C drive on my development machine, i have encrypted the connectionsettings via .net code but cant finde a solution for the smtp node can i encrypt the smtp in development pc or it hacse to be deployed first?
I am adding a 2nd web site to our pubic server and am noticing the SMTP delivery trying to use the default SMTP Virtual Server which is set up for the 1st web.
I created a 2nd virtual server with new smart host and credentials for the new site but need to modify the config file.
I tried using the host name = smtp virtual server 2 name.
in my application when client completes its shopping email will goes to user this works fine when there is internet connection is working fine, if there is some problem in internet connection if one mail stops then all the mails will be stopped even now internet works fine,
how to resend the emails using smtp server, is there any option to resend the emails automatically when internet works fine.
