Comments on: SPUtility.SendEmail

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:49:27 +0000

I’ve been trying to get SharePoint 2007 to send email via timer job for several days now and am finally going out to the internetz for help. The timer job is installing a successfully running every 5 minutes. However, I am not receiving any emails. Here is the code that I am using.

SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(this.WebApplication.OutboundMailServiceInstance.Server.Address);

smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = (smtp.Credentials == null);

MailMessage message = new MailMessage(“email@email.com”, “email@email.com”);

smtp.Send(message);

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:54:04 +0000

Hi jafar,
you cannot use SPUtility.SendEmail() in a timer job, because SendEmail() uses SPContext that is not present in timerjobs.

By: anuraj

anuraj — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:41:41 +0000

Thanks Gunnar, thanks for the valuable information.

By: Gunnar

Gunnar — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:20:57 +0000

You should check SharePoint logs at information level to find out if there are messages that may lead you to source of your problem.

By: Janey Wang

Janey Wang — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:40:24 +0000

Hoi , I think you might be able to do it. Please check http://www.myfatblog.co.uk/?p=79, I have tried it in my project and it works.