Unable to send mail via SMTP

I'm unable to send mail; I receive a "connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 64.79.170.148:25"

I used sample code from the KB, it is below:

Dim strFrom = "[email protected]"
Dim strTo = "[email protected]"
Dim MailMsg As New MailMessage(New MailAddress(strFrom.Trim()), New MailAddress(strTo))
MailMsg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Default
MailMsg.Subject = "This is a test"
MailMsg.Body = "This is a sample message using SMTP authentication"
MailMsg.Priority = MailPriority.High
MailMsg.IsBodyHtml = True
'Smtpclient to send the mail message

Dim SmtpMail As New SmtpClient
Dim basicAuthenticationInfo As New System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "correct")

SmtpMail.Host = "mail.sfvictoriana.biz"
SmtpMail.UseDefaultCredentials = False
SmtpMail.Credentials = basicAuthenticationInfo

Try
SmtpMail.Send(MailMsg)
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.ToString)
End Try



I am able to login via the username and password specified via the mail manager. If I use IIS manager to look at my domains smtp settings, there is no smtp server specified and auth settings are set to "Not Required". Could this be the issue?

Thanks

 

After you set the credentials, try adding:

SmtpMail.Port = 587

 

Success. Thank you Chuck. Can you provide any insight as to why I needed to do this, or should this step be added to the code sample?

 

Your port is being blocked by your ISP or Anti-virus/firewall service. 587 is just an alternate port we offer for those who cant use 25.