system.web.mail vs system.net.mail

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What is the difference between System.Web.Mail and System.Net.Mail?

Did you read the documentation? Seriously. if you ask waht is better etc- that is worthy an answer. Going through the classes item by item to find the difference is your homework with your copy of the documentation. — TomTom, Apr 11 '11 at 07:31
system.net.mail came in with 2.0, so system.web.mail is the only option if you are using less than 2.0 — V4Vendetta, Apr 11 '11 at 07:42
this stack-overflow thread may helps: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64599/net-system-web-mail-vs-system-net-mail — Mandoleen, Nov 02 '11 at 11:35

score 15 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 24 '14 at 11:25

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System.Web.Mail was in .NET Framework v1.1
System.Net.Mail is in .NET Framework v2.0 onwards

They are both used for the same purpose. If you use System.Web.Mail it only shows a warning, saying this is deprecated. It still works as supposed to.

If you are really using higher version (2.0 or later) of .NET framework, then use System.Net.Mail.

edited Jun 24 '14 at 11:25

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Any idea if System.Net.Mail implementation is any faster than System.Web.Mail? Are there any other benefits? – Ciaran Gallagher Nov 07 '14 at 14:02

score 12 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 29 '13 at 15:41

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First line in MSDN for the System.Web.Mail namespace:

The classes in this namespace have been deprecated. Use the System.Net.Mail namespace instead

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answered Apr 11 '11 at 07:33

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