contact page-sending from user email?!

Hi,

May you explain to me how the contact page setting is working?I mean is the email writtin the textbox ignored and how?If so what determine the sender email and the receiver email?

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

Take a look in the web.config at

<theBeerHouse defaultConnectionStringName="LocalSqlServer">
      <contactForm mailTo="thebeerhouse@wrox.com"/>
      <articles pageSize="10" />
      <polls archiveIsPublic="true" votingLockByIP="false" />
      <newsletters fromEmail="thebeerhouse@wrox.com" fromDisplayName="TheBeerHouse" />
      <forums threadsPageSize="8" hotThreadPosts="10"  bronzePosterPosts="10" silverPosterPosts="20" goldPosterPosts="50" />
      <store sandboxMode="true" businessEmail="thebeerhouse@wrox.com" />
   </theBeerHouse>

For the default values.

Hope it helps

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

OK.This mean the email thebeerhouse@wrox.com is the receiver email so what is the sender email?

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

The from address is from the txtEmail.Text, txtName.Text as per the code

msg.From = new MailAddress(txtEmail.Text, txtName.Text);

Hope it helps

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

jeremyh

The from address is from the txtEmail.Text, txtName.Text as per the code
msg.From = new MailAddress(txtEmail.Text, txtName.Text);
Hope it helps

Now that is my question..How could the website send from the user email without knowing his user name and password as you know this is not mailto which will open on the client computer?!

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

Oh Ok well the setting that it is using to send the mail are these from the web.config

<system.net>
      <mailSettings>
         <!-- <smtp deliveryMethod="Network"> -->
         <smtp deliveryMethod="PickupDirectoryFromIis" from="thebeerhouse@wrox.com">
            <network defaultCredentials="true" host="(localhost)" port="25" />
         </smtp>
      </mailSettings>
   </system.net>

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

jeremyh

Oh Ok well the setting that it is using to send the mail are these from the web.config

<system.net>
      <mailSettings>
         <!-- <smtp deliveryMethod="Network"> -->
         <smtp deliveryMethod="PickupDirectoryFromIis" from="thebeerhouse@wrox.com">
            <network defaultCredentials="true" host="(localhost)" port="25" />
         </smtp>
      </mailSettings>
   </system.net>

Don't you think it is impossible to use the same email to send the message and receive it?

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

Sorry I am not sure I understand you here, but if you have a website and you send out email as info@domain but you could still have
email sent to you on that address.

But I guess most of the time you would not send mail to youself, unless you where testing something out.

Hope it helps

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

As you mentioned in your previous posts the email in both settings is:thebeerhouse@wrox.com as following:

<contactForm mailTo="thebeerhouse@wrox.com"/>

<smtp deliveryMethod="PickupDirectoryFromIis" from="thebeerhouse@wrox.com">

Which means we are setting the same email as in "from" and "mailto" .Is this correct?

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

Yes, So you need to set these up to your own settings before you deploy the site.

Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

jeremyh

Yes, So you need to set these up to your own settings before you deploy the site.

Thank you for continue with me all the time i nthis thread.I tested the settings in an online website and it works fine.I used the same email in both settings(mailTo and from) and it works.I don't know how this become possible but it is working fine anyway.The email in the textbox will appear as it is the sender too when you receive the email.This is realy great.If any one know how this become possible please explain to us.

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Re: contact page-sending from user email?!

Glad that you are happy.

Let me try another way to answer your question in the contact.aspx.cs you have

msg.From = new MailAddress(txtEmail.Text, txtName.Text);

Setting the from address to the txtemail textbox vale

And then you have
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress(Globals.Settings.ContactForm.MailTo));
Which is getting the value from the web.config contactForm mailTo="thebeerhouse@wrox.com"/

Then you also have the from address setup in the web.config for the newsletter.

And then final you have the smtp settings in the web.config, which is used for things like forgot password
and anyother general email setting with a from address.

Hope it helps