The following c# example codes demonstrate how to send email using Yahoo SMTP server.
Yahoo SMTP Server
Yahoo SMTP server address is smtp.mail.yahoo.com
. It supports both Normal/Implicit
SSL/Explicit SSL (TLS) connection to do user authentication, and you should use
your Yahoo email address as the user name for ESMTP authentication.
If you want to use implicit SSL connection with Yahoo SMTP server, you must set the port to 465.
Server | Port | SSL/TLS |
smtp.mail.yahoo.com | 25, 587 | TLS |
smtp.mail.yahoo.com | 465 | SSL |
Sections:
Before you can use the following codes, please download EASendMail SMTP Component and install it on your machine at first. Full sample proejcts are included in this installer.
Install from NuGet
You can also install the run-time assembly by NuGet. Run the following command in the NuGet Package Manager Console:
Install-Package EASendMail
Note
If you install it by NuGet, no sample projects are installed, only .NET assembly is installed.
To use EASendMail SMTP Component in your project, the first step is Add reference
of EASendMail to your project
. Please create or open your project with Visual Studio,
then go to menu
-> Project
-> Add Reference
-> .NET
-> Browse...
, and select
Installation Path\Lib\net[version]\EASendMail.dll
from your disk, click Open
-> OK
, the reference of EASendMail
will be added to your project, and you can start to use it to send email
in your project.
Because EASendMail has separate builds for .Net Framework, please refer to the following table and choose the correct dll.
Separate builds of run-time assembly for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.6.1, 4.7.2, 4.8.1, .NET 5.0, .NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, .NET 8.0, .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5.
File | .NET Framework Version |
Lib\[net20|40|45|461|472|481]\EASendMail.dll |
Built with .NET Framework 2.0, 4.0, 4.5, 4.6.1, 4.7.2, 4.8.1
It requires .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5 or later version. |
Lib\[net5.0|6.0|7.0|8.0]\EASendMail.dll |
Built with .NET 5.0, .NET 6.0, .NET 7.0, .NET 8.0
It requires .NET 5.0 or later version. |
Lib\netstandard2.0\EASendMail.dll |
Built with .NET Standard 2.0
It requires .NET Standard 2.0 or later version. |
Lib\[net20-cf|net35-cf]\EASendMail.dll |
Built with .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5
It requires .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5 or later version. |
Important
If you got authentication error, you need to enable Allowing less secure apps in your Yahoo account. Or you can generate App Passwords and use this app password instead of your user password.
Although Yahoo supports OAUTH, but it doesn’t provide mail permission, so OAUTH is not a solution for Yahoo mail.
The following example codes demonstrate sending email using Yahoo SMTP server.
In order to run it correctly, please change SMTP server
, user
, password
, sender
, recipient
value to yours.
Note
To get full sample projects, please download and install EASendMail on your machine.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using EASendMail; //add EASendMail namespace
namespace mysendemail
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
try
{
SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt");
// Your yahoo email address
oMail.From = "myid@yahoo.com";
// Set recipient email address
oMail.To = "support@emailarchitect.net";
// Set email subject
oMail.Subject = "test email from yahoo account";
// Set email body
oMail.TextBody = "this is a test email sent from c# with yahoo.";
// Yahoo SMTP server address
SmtpServer oServer = new SmtpServer("smtp.mail.yahoo.com");
// For example: your email is "myid@yahoo.com", then the user should be "myid@yahoo.com"
oServer.User = "myid@yahoo.com";
oServer.Password = "yourpassword";
// Because yahoo deploys SMTP server on 465 port with direct SSL connection.
// So we should change the port to 465. you can also use 25 or 587
oServer.Port = 465;
// detect SSL type automatically
oServer.ConnectType = SmtpConnectType.ConnectSSLAuto;
Console.WriteLine("start to send email over SSL ...");
SmtpClient oSmtp = new SmtpClient();
oSmtp.SendMail(oServer, oMail);
Console.WriteLine("email was sent successfully!");
}
catch (Exception ep)
{
Console.WriteLine("failed to send email with the following error:");
Console.WriteLine(ep.Message);
}
}
}
}
TLS is the successor of SSL, more and more SMTP servers require TLS 1.2
encryption now.
If your operating system is Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2
, you need to
enable TLS 1.2 protocol in your operating system like this:
Enable TLS 1.2 on Windows XP/Vista/7/10/Windows 2008/2008 R2/2012
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