Send Email with a .NET 6 Web API using Mailkit & SMTP 📧

[@PatrickGod]

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[@bzmind_]

Thanks for also showing the best practice to implement this, like creating IEmailService, DTO etc... that is much more helpful than you think!!! Thanks.

[@luciopereirabrito3154]

Thank you a lot, I'm from Brazil and you helped me with this subject. I was having problems with the TSL server. However, now everything makes sense.

[@GrimReaper160490]

This is great Patrick! Very simple tutorial but is very useful in a practical use case especially if you need automated emails being sent out :) keep them coming

[@shahabjoon201]

Perfect as always Mr. God. You bless You.

[@PatrickGod]

😅 Thank you!

[@jnr.guerreiro]

😂

[@enhu]

oh my god I was literally looking for this 2 days ago, you're a life savior, god bless you!

[@PatrickGod]

Glad I could help! Thanks for sharing that. 😁

[@twitterer]

Lol @ OMG & Life savior puns

[@Thorne991]

Great Job! This is the real one for Email Clients.

[@tahirnawaz9821]

Thank you so much ❤, seriously I have no words for you, God bless you

[@nueledem3525]

Nice one patrick. Great video!

[@PatrickGod]

Thank you! 😊

[@nirajchandrajoshi]

Hi I am new to your video and just to highlight that your way of talking is more than super actually supeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

[@rahiyansafin449]

BEST PATRICK GOD VIDEO EVER!!!!!!

[@nnasim5089]

This is Great!! Loved it

[@94Andreaaa]

thank you man i was looking for something like this. keep up the good work.

[@vamvdotnet]

Great video, Patrick! Way to go! :)

[@choipatrick7006]

Thank you for your video. could you please explain or add to the video for sending email with attachments. really thanks.

[@adebanjooluwasola4709]

Amazing Video

[@QVMaster]

Very good and useful explanation❤

[@sricharan2134]

Really nice explanation..👍🏻

[@PatrickGod]

Thank you 🙂

[@moshkaffy]

nice work, keep it up.

[@PatrickGod]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@antoniorod3776]

Thanks, your video help me a lot

[@devcharlie3377]

In the first part of the video after connecting the smtp to try out in swagger, I am getting this error when trying out the API in swagger - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

[@grumpydeveloper69]

I always forget this as well @16:58 I prefer _ for private fields but doing this manually is cumbersome. Just set the C# CodeStyle naming convention for private fields to _camelCase and when you CTRL+. it does it for you

[@twitterer]

Ditto. Good suggestion.

[@angelsebastianbellomateo6954]

I love you Patrick

[@grumpydeveloper69]

ANd at @17:08 you use GetSection but _config.GetValue("EmailHost") is much easier to use

[@TheArmproducer]

_config["EmailHost"] even easier)

[@angelcasanchez7229]

thank you very much Patrick GOD

[@user-zb3vl4ny4f]

Thanks so much

[@PedalsizBerkay]

THANKS GOD

[@salvcri]

Thanks a lot!

[@PatrickGod]

Welcome! 😊

[@Mo-ef9yt]

Very nice 👍🏿

[@PatrickGod]

Thank you! 😊

[@testtest-c4z]

Very good video, is there something that is not clear to me when I send an email using an API, it is not done through an SMTP server? How would it be sent in that case?

[@azgan123]

Patrick is funny its hard not to like him 🤣🤣

[@PatrickGod]

Thank you very much! 😁

[@asifkhan-yi3nh]

thanks man!!

[@onr4087]

I'm doing instant operations on data using jsonresult. Is there an easier way to do this? can you make a video about it?

[@bloggrammer]

Mailkit doesn't work for WPF app, why? I tried to adapt this implementation to a WPF app but that didn't work.

[@chessgamesonline5867]

how can we send emails for example gmail adresses?

[@krishtechie]

Thank you dude ✌️

[@raphaellukas3328]

Thanks for this informative video! I like it :-)

[@PatrickGod]

Glad to hear that!

[@Ngonirow007]

Excellent video Patrick. My question now is how to send emails to clients that would have 2FA enable and less secure app access turned off, that is when the API is now in production. I saw a work around to send emails to Gmail accounts by having to turn 2FA and enable less secure app access which it is feasible in production

[@ibrahimraboudi]

this is my problem now

[@GoLezhaShowMega]

U'r the best

[@PatrickGod]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@MuhammadFaizan-rl4rp]

why do you have same email for both sender and recipient? usually it should be two different emails.

[@bzmind_]

Thank God :D

[@ZestyGuy-World]

your content muaaaaa!!!!!!

[@brunoramirez6491]

Excellent video, Thanks.....

[@PatrickGod]

You are welcome! Thanks a lot for your feedback! 😊

[@utsabsingh1944]

cant we use this mail service in MVC project ? i am beginner and dont know why you have to use web API for this

[@2-8ev20]

Hello! I need to find a solution to send emails in Blazor Webassembly, but I couldn't use this method there. Is there any trick?

[@andresbeltran5779]

Nice very helpfull

[@sergi3056]

Perfect

[@HiranLIVE]

It worked for me. BUT you need to setup an 'app password' on your Google Account if using Gmail as smtp. This is a new thing. They have deprecated the 'Less Secure App' feature.

[@giorgichikovani4129]

what to do exactly in 'app password'?

[@HiranLIVE]

@@giorgichikovani4129 You have to get an ‘app password’ on your Google Account, and use that in your code instead of your normal Gmail password.

[@giorgichikovani4129]

@@HiranLIVE Tnx

[@bennyo]

So if I implement this. I can purchase a cloud SMTP and hook into that to deliver production worthy emails?

[@emmanuellarteymohammed4534]

God!, interesting

[@KN-hv3gn]

Hi Patrick! Great tutorial. I have a question. I have a Visual Studio solution with the Email service project and a Razor project called Visitors. How can I consume the Email project to send emails from the Visitors project?

[@dgam8]

I have the same question!!!!

[@dgam8]

There isn't a single video on sending Email with Mailkit using Razor or Blazor....

[@abhinjoby7107]

For me it's showing System.Net.Sockets.SocketException. I am facing a connection attempt failure. How to fix this?

[@allantzirin6218]

Thanks bro

[@vci123]

Broooooo!

[@mahydulislam]

How can I receive mail using mailkit?

[@shahabjoon201]

Dear Mr. God, Thank you again for existing, the question is, I sent an email with the above structure (which is really perfect), but when I filled the "To" property with a real Gmail as a receiver, it sent it to the sender which is the fake email (generating by the Ethereal). Is it common or did I make a mistake? Thanks in advance Shahab

[@bloggrammer]

That's weird. Maybe you should close your VS and try again

[@twitterer]

It might be a restriction by Ethereal to stop you from using their service for production. You can simple use your own proper smtp service and it should be okay.

[@shahabjoon201]

@@twitterer Thank you Hassan.

[@yovanies2798]

Me sucedió lo mismo al usar una cuenta de GMAIL, me sale error y no envía el correo. alguna novedad sobre eso.

[@dhatuan]

thank

[@nucasspro1]

Could you make a video to share about read write conflict?

[@dgam8]

what are the chances you could do this using blazor? maybe even radzen blazor?

[@FerozVox]

Hi Patrick I am working on X509Certificate I need to check the revocation of certificate online and offline will help me to that if it is possible make some videos on that

[@PriyadarshiPrashant]

When i try to pass Object (person) i got error like TypeError : Failed To Execute fetch on Windows Request with get /Head Method cannot have body

[@naturehuman9469]

But I need to send email on Gmail account there it's not work Please guide me 😢

[@angelcasanchez7229]

Is it possible to make a get by id request to a table that doesn't have a primary key?

[@EpTechie]

Great job 👍👏👏 Can you do a video for Blazor Server without API? Thanks

[@level1245]

How to embed image in email using mailkit. Without using bodybuilder any example can give me link

[@Dartarok999]

patrick god, could you help me, making a video explaining how to save multiple files with inputfile but save them in a local folder and show that local path in the database, it would be very helpful since I've been trying for a long time... with blazor webassembly

[@debopammandal9255]

how to add attachment in this email structure

[@reitumetsemakgatho9537]

Hi Patrick how can I use this API in angular

[@user-cn7ec8px5e]

hey Actually i getting 404 error while i am testing my api of send email on postman idn why, is this beacause i am working 3.1?

[@vtminhlien8840]

Can you make video login with google, firebase please

[@maurirom92]

hi, how can I attach files?, I need attach files that are in my wwwroot folder

[@louisszeto31620000]

Excellent video! May I ask if I store the email password in appsetting.json is safe if I deploy the app?

[@Chips4Real1]

dont store it there

[@attilaguba856]

@@Chips4Real1 so what is the good solution, for real deployment?

[@18_arpitpatel47]

please anyone say how to implement attachment(fileupload) in this project

[@SaikiranNomula]

How can this guarantee that all the emails with attachments will send to the receiver? Is there anything I need to use to get confirmation? reply is greatly appreciated!

[@ibrahimraboudi]

did u find something ?

[@leonardvanonselen]

Nice video👍 do you have any suggestions on which SMTP server to use in production that is able to work seamlessly with the mailkit package? Gmail , 0365 etc. all require MFA which mailkit doesn't cater for

[@byte7930]

Exactly what I needed right now! Thanks for your effort! If I could place a wish... I worked through your Udemy course which helped me a lot creating my first app for a friend (work in progress). But as I want to run the backend on a Linux machine I'd like to use EntityFramework with MariaDB instead of MS SQL Server. Is there any chance, you could set up a quick tutorial on that? I'd appreciate it with at least one coffee :)

[@bigggmoustache8868]

Seriously, ask chatgpt. If you can find something to guide you alongside it you can probably achieve your goal. It's walked me through so much it's absolutely insane.

[@samsonmayeem8409]

Yes

[@attilaguba856]

Hi Patrick! Everything is working fine, I have made Contact Us form , but the I have got the same email address for the From and the To objects! I would like to achieve after the user gives the input ( From : user email address ) that will be the sender : email.From.Add(MailboxAddress.Parse("user_Input_email")); email.To.Add(MailboxAddress.Parse("receiver_EmailAddress")); I'm getting emails and etc but the Sender and Receiver are the same email address, ( using gmail ). How Can I fix it?

[@FernandoZamudioC]

Hello in the Line smtp.Connect("smtp.ethereal.email", 587, MailKit.Security.SecureSocketOptions.StartTls); return this error SslHandshakeException: An error occurred while attempting to establish an SSL or TLS connection. Any idea ? thank you !

[@iamfahimshahriar]

were you able to solve it ?

[@FernandoZamudioC]

@@iamfahimshahriar yes thank you

[@MustafaAdel-oj4uc]

in my case ,i am just stop avast anti-virus and it works.