I wrote a simple program in C# Winforms for sending an email and my code is mentioned below:-
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public MailMessage rtnMail()
{
string to = txt_To.Text;
string from = txt_From.Text;
string subject = txt_Subject.Text;
string body = txt_Body.Text;
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to, subject, body);
return message;
}
//Button click event
private void btn_Send_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");
smtp.Port = 587;
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("myanotherid@gmail.com", "password");
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.Timeout = 500000;
smtp.Send(this.rtnMail());
}
}
when i run this code and put all the values in textboxes like (to, from, body, subject) and click the "Send" button i do end up getting an email at an address
mentioned in the Textbox named txt_To ( which is my recipient gmail account id).But whenever i look at which address(email id) i got this email from in Microsoft
Outlook (which i have configued for my gmail recipeint account), it always says that i got this email from the email address mentioned as first argument in the line of
code below,
smtp.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("myanotherid@gmail.com", "password");
My question is, am i doing anything wrong because i expect that email address from which im receiving an email( in my outlook gmail) should be the one that i put in
TextBox named txt_From rather than from "myanotherid@gmail.com" address.
Is there a work around or does there exist an alternate to it.