Can't send mail using SmtpClient
The server responds with 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated but only if you do not set UseDefaultCredentials to true. This indicates that the NetworkCredential that you are using is in fact wrong.
Either the user name or password is wrong or perhaps you need to specify a domain? You can use another constructor to specify the domain:
new NetworkCredential("MyUserName", "MyPassword", "MyDomain");Or perhaps the user that you specify does not have the necessary rights to send mail on the SMTP server but then I would expect another server response.
SmtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials Property
Remarks
Some SMTP servers require that the client be authenticated before the server sends email on its behalf. Set this property to true when this SmtpClient object should, if requested by the server, authenticate using the default credentials of the currently logged on user. For client applications, this is the desired behavior in most scenarios.
Credentials information can also be specified using the application and machine configuration files. For more information, see <mailSettings> Element (Network Settings).
If the UseDefaultCredentials property is set to false, then the value set in the Credentials property will be used for the credentials when connecting to the server. If the UseDefaultCredentials property is set to false and the Credentials property has not been set, then mail is sent to the server anonymously.
Caution
If you provide credentials for basic authentication, they are sent to the server in clear text. This can present a security issue because your credentials can be seen, and then used by others.
1. UseDefaultCredentials为true,那么使用using the default credentials of the currently logged on user
2.UseDefaultCredentials为false
2.1 如果配置了credentials，就使用credentials
2.2 如果没有配置credentials，那么就是匿名登陆
Why SmtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials is ignored?
If UseDefaultCredentials is set to true, it does NOT mean use the values in the Credentials property. Instead, it means use the credentials of the "currently logged on user", which in the case of IIS web apps will usually be the app pool identity, and in the case of a Windows service is the identity of the service, and in the case of a desktop application, it's the identity of the user logged into Windows.
See the Microsoft document (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.smtpclient.usedefaultcredentials(v=vs.110).aspx) where it states that if UseDefaultCredentials is false (the default) and you don't provide anything in the Credentials property, "then mail is sent to the server anonymously".
Confused with the SmtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials Property
So why would me explicitly setting the property to false throw an exception?
The reason for this is because the setter for UseDefaultCredentials sets the Credentials property to null if you set it to false, or it sets it to the CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials property if set to true. The DefaultNetworkCredentials property is defined by MSDN as:
The credentials returned by DefaultNetworkCredentials represents the authentication credentials for the current security context in which the application is running. For a client-side application, these are usually the Windows credentials (user name, password, and domain) of the user running the application. For ASP.NET applications, the default network credentials are the user credentials of the logged-in user, or the user being impersonated.
When you set UseDefaultCredentials to true, it's using your IIS user, and I'm assuming that your IIS user does not have the same authentication credentials as your account for whatever SMTP server you're using. Setting UseDefaultCredentials to false null's out the credentials that are set. So either way you're getting that error.
CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials is empty and so is Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name
using System; using System.Net; using System.Security.Principal; namespace ConsoleApp1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var credential = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials; Console.WriteLine($"credential.Domain={credential.Domain}"); Console.WriteLine($"credential.UserName={credential.UserName}"); Console.WriteLine($"credential.Password={credential.Password}"); Console.WriteLine($"credential.SecurePassword={credential.SecurePassword.Length}"); Console.WriteLine($"WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name={WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name}"); Console.WriteLine($"Environment.UserName={Environment.UserName}"); Console.ReadLine(); } } }
一个带了域名，另外一个不带域名
SmtpClient Class
Important
We don't recommend that you use the SmtpClient class for new development because SmtpClient doesn't support many modern protocols. Use MailKit or other libraries instead. For more information, see SmtpClient shouldn't be used on GitHub.
The SmtpClient class is obsolete in Xamarin. However:
- It is included in the .NET Standard 2.0 and later versions and therefore must be part of any .NET implementation that supports those versions.
- It is present and can be used in .NET Framework 4 through .NET Framework 4.8.
- It is usable in .NET Core, but its use isn't recommended.
Microsoft has officially marked a .NET class as being replaced by an open source library.
The documentation for SmtpClient now reads,
Obsolete("SmtpClient and its network of types are poorly designed, we strongly recommend you use https://github.com/jstedfast/MailKit and https://github.com/jstedfast/MimeKit instead")
The main problem with SmtpClient is that it has a confusing connection lifecycle.
Connecting to a SMTP server can be time-consuming, especially if authentication is enabled, so each SmtpClient object has an internal connection pool.
This is a rather strange design. Consider for a moment a typical database connection. When you call Dispose on a SqlClient, the underlying connection is returned to the pool. When you create a new SqlClient, the pool is checked for an active connection with the same connection string.
With SmtpClient, calling Dispose closes all of the connections and drains that object’s connection pool. This means you can’t use it with the typical using block pattern.
A well-known approach of the shared instance like HttpClient cannot be used in SmtpClient.
Well, no. , Unlike HttpClient, the Send/SendAsync methods are not thread thread-safe. So unless you want to introduce your own synchronization scheme, you can’t use it that way either. In fact, the documentation for SmtpClient warns,
By contrast, the SMTP client in MailKit represents a simple connection to a single server. By eliminating the complexity caused by internal connection pools, it actually makes it easier to create an application-specific pool for MailKit’s connection object.