Hi, I'm using the MVC Contact form and I wrote the code for SendEmail in my Controller Action method and I get the mailSettings details from mailSettings. Now I'm unable to send the emails from the deployed cloud website but its working good in my local project. Below is my SendEmail method.

 private int SendEmail(string subject, string mailBody, string toAddress, HttpPostedFileBase file)
 {
        if (toAddress != null)
        {
            Configuration configurationFile = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~/web.config");
            MailSettingsSectionGroup mailSettings = configurationFile
                .GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings") as MailSettingsSectionGroup;
            if (mailSettings != null)
            {
                MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
                msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
                msg.Subject = subject;
                msg.From = new MailAddress(mailSettings.Smtp.From, "My Website");
                msg.Body = mailBody.ToString();
                msg.To.Add(new MailAddress(toAddress));
                if (file != null)
                {
                    string fileName = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
                    msg.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(file.InputStream, fileName));
                }
                using (var smtp = new SmtpClient())
                {
                    smtp.Host = mailSettings.Smtp.Network.Host;
                    smtp.Port = mailSettings.Smtp.Network.Port;
                    smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = mailSettings.Smtp.Network.DefaultCredentials;
                    smtp.EnableSsl = mailSettings.Smtp.Network.EnableSsl;
                    var credential = new NetworkCredential
                    {
                        UserName = mailSettings.Smtp.Network.UserName,  // replace with valid value
                        Password = mailSettings.Smtp.Network.Password  // replace with valid value
                    };
                    smtp.Credentials = credential;
                    try
                    {
                        smtp.Send(msg);
                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        string _errorMsg = ex.Message;
                    }
                    finally
                    {

                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return 1;
    }

And my mailSettings code is

<mailSettings>
  <smtp from="[email protected]" deliveryMethod="Network">
    <network host="smtp.gmail.com" userName="[email protected]" password="****" port="587" enableSsl="true" defaultCredentials="false"/>
  </smtp>
</mailSettings>

Please suggest me a good solution.

Thanks

Ram's