Thanks for the Info. That cleared up my understanding of namespaces and such. I also took your advice and found a tutorial using the SMTP Client in System.Net.Mail.

https://wheeler.kiwi.nz/blog/quick-and-easy-umbraco-7-razor-contact-form/ It helped me clean up my controller a little more.

Unfortunately, I am still not emailing. On submission I get a server error.

Server Error in '/' Application. The resource cannot be found.

Do you have any Insight to this??? could this be an issue with my SMTP configuration in web.config?

Here is the current control.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Forms.Mvc.DynamicObjects;
using Umbraco.Models;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

namespace Umbraco.Controllers
{
public class ContactSurfaceController : SurfaceController
{
    [ChildActionOnly]
    public ActionResult ContactForm()
    { 
        //in case you need it
        var currentNode = Umbraco.TypedContent(UmbracoContext.PageId.GetValueOrDefault());

        var model = new ContactModel();
        return PartialView("ContactForm", model);
    }


    [System.Web.Mvc.HttpPost]
    public ActionResult ContactForm(ContactModel model)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.AppendFormat("<p>Name: {0}</p>", model.Name);
            sb.AppendFormat("<p>Email: {0}</p>", model.Email);
            sb.AppendFormat("<p>Phone: {0}</p>", model.Phone);
            sb.AppendFormat("<p>Company: {0}</p>", model.Company);
            sb.AppendFormat("<p>{0}</p>", model.Message);

            SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();
            MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

            message.To.Add(new    MailAddress(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ContactAddress"]));
            message.Sender = new MailAddress(model.Email);
            message.Body = sb.ToString();
            message.IsBodyHtml = true;


            try
            {
                smtp.Send(message);
            }
            catch (SmtpException)
            { 
            //log or manage your error here, then...
                return RedirectToUmbracoPage(1337); // <-My published error page.
            }

            return RedirectToUmbracoPage(1336); // <-My published succes page.
        }

        return CurrentUmbracoPage();
    }
}
}

Hi Sam

What is the markup for your form ?

ie are you using:

@Html.BeginUmbracoForm<ContactSurface>("ContactFrom"){


}

Can you put a breakpoint in visual studio on you post handling action, and see if it is hit when the for is posted back ?

and if it is hit, step through each line of code until you get the error ?

then you'll get more of a clue if it is the smtp config at fault or the posting back bit...

Marc,

Thanks for the reply again. This was one of many issues I found since your last message. I only had ("Contact") where it should have been ("ContactFrom").

I am no longer getting any error, which is great, but now the email is simply not sending. I get redirected to my error page. I have tired a couple SMTP accounts.

do I need to do more to reference the smtp account settings in the web.config file?

SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();

Hi Sam,

It depends on what you are using for a SMTP service

but something like this if you were using sendgrid:

  <system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp deliveryMethod="network" from="[email protected]">
        <network host="smtp.sendgrid.com" userName="[email protected]" password="yourpasswordhere" />
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>

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