Sending mail in background in asp.net website

Question

I have a Asp.net Ajax website designed using AjaxControlToolkit and update panel. Inside update panel i have a button to send mail to the user on click of this button. My mail content has a big info with some attachments which takes more time to send mail. So i have to do this mailing process in background so that website will be responsive after clicking on send mail button. After sending mail i have to notify user of the mailing status.

Any suggesion is most welcome. Thanks in advance.

Kirtan Patel · Answer

In this case you need to create separate thread that sends mail .

vinay singh · Answer

Hi Take a label control inside update panel and set it's property visible=false and Text=Your Message To user.. now go to ur code (.cs or .vb) page and after finishing the code for sending the mail set label property visible=true. Thanks Vinay

meli · Answer

check out Beginning ASP.nET 3.5 in C# and VB by Imar Spaanjaars. He has a pretty good example how to send email .