ASP.NET MVC Email Contact Form

Question

I am creating a contact form for customers to type info in the form and submit an email to us. Also, my hosting package is under Go Daddy. I used the following code as a test and it worked.

MailMessage oMail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();

      oMail.Subject = "Subject",
      oMail.Body 
      oMail.From = "myFromAddress@domain.com",
      oMail.To = "myToAddress@someotherdomain.com",

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net";
SmtpMail.Send(oMail);

Then I changed to code to get the info inputted from the form to be emailed, and not it's giving me an error.

public ActionResult ContactForm(ContactModel emailModel)
    {
        MailMessage oMail = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();

            oMail.From = "Website Contact Form";
            oMail.To = "myemail@hmydomain.com";
            oMail.Subject = emailModel.Subject;
            string body = "Name: " + emailModel.Name + "\n"
                        + "Email: " + emailModel.Email + "\n"
                        + "Website: " + emailModel.Website + "\n"
                        + "Phone: " + emailModel.Phone + "\n\n"
                        + emailModel.Message;

            oMail.Body = body;

    SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "relay-hosting.secureserver.net";
    SmtpMail.Send(oMail);
        return View();
    }

Its giving me this error

COMException (0x8004020d): At least one of the From or Sender fields is required, and neither was found

Try the `From` and `To` you used in the test. – gdoron Jan 31 '12 at 18:59 — gdoron, Jan 31 '12 at 18:59

Bassam Mehanni · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-31T19:35:09.563

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looks like you are not supplying the email-from field:

oMail.From = "someEmail@someDomain.com"; //instead of -> "Website Contact Form"

edited Jan 31 '12 at 19:35

answered Jan 31 '12 at 18:59

Bassam Mehanni

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That's correct. Except I physically need to type in the address. oMail.From = someone@domail.com – Lars Hovden Jan 31 '12 at 19:16
@LarsHovden fixed.. I just assumed your model has it, by the way, I recommend that you store that email in the database or in your web.config instead of directly hard-coding it. – Bassam Mehanni Jan 31 '12 at 19:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 19:10

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The "From" field you specified isn't a valid email address. To and from need to be in email format, even if they aren't live addresses that can send or receive mail.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 19:10

Brian

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ASP.NET MVC Email Contact Form

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