Sending email from inside a script.

[GKonheiser]

Hi

I wanted to develope an indicator that has an email function. Using System.Net.Mail, with the following code:-

MailMessage mail1 = new MailMessage("[email protected]", "[email protected]");
			SmtpClient client1 = new SmtpClient();
			client1.Port = 465;
			client1.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("[email protected]","1234");
			client1.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
			client1.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
			client1.Host = "smtp.email.com";
			client1.EnableSsl = true;
			
			mail1.Subject = "this is a test email 12345.";
			mail1.Body = "this is my test email body 12345";
			client1.Send(mail1);

But when I use this NT freezes up, is there a reason for this, is it not a good idea to try and do this?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

GKonheiser, how often / when would you trigger the sending? I would just recommend to use our default SendMail() NinjaScript methd for this task.

https://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/sendmail.htm

[GKonheiser]

Hi Bertrand,

OK I will use the built in method. I am having a problem with one of my installations of NT and sending a test email. On one machine test email is sent without a problem, on my second install I cant get a test email to be sent. Always getting timeouts. I've tried two different accounts. Is there a way to debug this from a more detailed log?

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

GKonheiser, if this is isolated for both accounts to a specific machine, I would first check into the firewall setup here and compare. A first quick test would be just deactivating all filtering rules and recheck.

[GKonheiser]

It was the stupid windows firewall : ). Thanks