C# – Troubleshooting “Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: Access denied – Invalid HELO name” when sending email with SmtpClient

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I have been trying to send an email by C#. I have Googled for various examples and have taken bits and pieces from each and from the standard code which everyone would most probably be using.

string to = "receiver@domain.com";
string from = "sender@domain.com";
string subject = "Hello World!";
string body =  "Hello Body!";
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to, subject, body);
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp.domain.com");
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("test@domain.com", "password");
client.Send(message);

However, I keep getting an error stating

System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Mailbox
unavailable. The server response was:
Access denied – Invalid HELO name (See
RFC2821 4.1.1.1)

So, what do I do now? Is SmtpClient supposed to be special and only work on specific SMTP servers?

Best Answer

It seems your username/password pair is not authenticating successfully with your SMTP server.

EDIT

I think, I found what's wrong here. I have corrected your version below. 

string to = "receiver@domain.com";

//It seems, your mail server demands to use the same email-id in SENDER as with which you're authenticating. 
//string from = "sender@domain.com";
string from = "test@domain.com";

string subject = "Hello World!";
string body =  "Hello Body!";
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to, subject, body);
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("smtp.domain.com");
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("test@domain.com", "password");
client.Send(message);
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