Sending Email through Microsoft Exchange Server

Question

Okay, so I have this program which in essence acts as an email client for a company, it constructs the email for them and sends it out.

I've done everything on it, but when going to send the email, they get a Mailbox Unavailable. Accessed Denied - Invalid HELO Name

Interestingly though, I use the same username for the network credentials and the from part.

EDIT: Update code to what I'm now using... Now getting Failure sending mail error.

Here is my MailConst.cs class:

public class MailConst
{

    /*
     */

    public static string Username = "username";
    public static string Password = "password";
    public const string SmtpServer = "smtp.domain.co.uk";

    public static string From = Username + "@domain.co.uk";

}

and here is the use of these variables in my main class:

    public static void SendMail(string recipient, string subject, string body, string[] attachments)
    {


        SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
        NetworkCredential basicCredential = new NetworkCredential(MailConst.Username, MailConst.Password, MailConst.SmtpServer);
        MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
        MailAddress fromAddress = new MailAddress(MailConst.From);

        // setup up the host, increase the timeout to 5 minutes
        smtpClient.Host = MailConst.SmtpServer;
        smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
        smtpClient.Credentials = basicCredential;
        smtpClient.Timeout = (60 * 5 * 1000);

        message.From = fromAddress;
        message.Subject = subject + " - " + DateTime.Now.Date.ToString().Split(' ')[0];
        message.IsBodyHtml = true;
        message.Body = body.Replace("\r\n", "<br>");
        message.To.Add(recipient);

        if (attachments != null)
        {
            foreach (string attachment in attachments)
            {
                message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(attachment));
            }
        }

        smtpClient.Send(message);
    }

Just as a side note. The program works when using my credentials, when going through my own server, just doesn't work when linking it to theirs.

Answer 1

In order to fix this problem I had to use the optional parameter Domain for the NetworkCredential

My code now looks like this:

NetworkCredential basicCredential = new NetworkCredential(MailConst.UserName, MailConst.Password, MailConst.Domain

Where the MailConst.Domain is a string pointing to the Exchange domain.