Trying to create an email verification in C# based on this article.
I've created a jangosmtp account to send the email. However it doesn't seem to be working.
Web.config:
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp>
<network
host="relay.example.com" port="25" userName="********" password="********" />
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>
Registration.aspx
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
<asp:CreateUserWizard ID="CreateUserWizard1" runat="server" DisableCreatedUser="True">
<WizardSteps>
<asp:CreateUserWizardStep ID="CreateUserWizardStep1" runat="server" />
<asp:CompleteWizardStep ID="CompleteWizardStep1" runat="server" />
</WizardSteps>
<MailDefinition BodyFileName="NewAccountTemplate.htm" From="example@example.com" IsBodyHtml="True" Subject="Steps to activate your new account..." Priority="High" />
</asp:CreateUserWizard>
</asp:Content>
Registration.aspx.cs:
namespace WebSite
{
public partial class Registration : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void CreateUserWizard1_SendingMail(object sender, MailMessageEventArgs e)
{
//Send an email to the address on file
MembershipUser userInfo = Membership.GetUser(CreateUserWizard1.UserName);
//Construct the verification URL
string verifyUrl = Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + Page.ResolveUrl("~/Verify.aspx?ID=" + userInfo.ProviderUserKey.ToString());
//Replace <%VerifyUrl%> placeholder with verifyUrl value
e.Message.Body = e.Message.Body.Replace("<%VerifyUrl%>", verifyUrl);
}
}
}
NewAccountTemplate.htm
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Steps to activate your account...</title>
</head>
<body style="font-family:Verdana;">
<h2>
Welcome to My Website!</h2>
<p>
Hello, <%UserName%>. You are receiving this email because you recently created a new account at my
site. Before you can login, however, you need to first visit the following link:</p>
<p>
<a href="<%VerifyUrl%>"><%VerifyUrl%></a></p>
<p>
After visiting the above link you can log into the site!</p>
<p>
If you have any problems verifying your account, please reply to this email to
get assistance.</p>
<p>
Thanks!</p>
</body>
</html>
Verify.aspx.cs:
namespace WebSite
{
public partial class Verify : Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Make sure that a valid query string value was passed through
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["ID"]) || !Regex.IsMatch(Request.QueryString["ID"], "[0-9a-f]{8}\\-([0-9a-f]{4}\\-){3}[0-9a-f]{12}"))
{
InformationLabel.Text = "An invalid ID value was passed in through the querystring.";
} else {
//ID exists and is kosher, see if this user is already approved
//Get the ID sent in the querystring
Guid userId = new Guid(Request.QueryString["ID"]);
//Get information about the user
MembershipUser userInfo = Membership.GetUser(userId);
if (userInfo == null) {
//Could not find user!
InformationLabel.Text = "The user account could not be found in the membership database.";
} else {
//User is valid, approve them
userInfo.IsApproved = true;
Membership.UpdateUser(userInfo);
//Display a message
InformationLabel.Text = "Your account has been verified and you can now log into the site.";
}
}
}
}
}
Two things concerning me which is what im assuming is not causing it to work.
- How does it know to even send NewAccountTemplate.htm message? UPDATE ahh i see where that happens in the createuserwizard1 now. Still getting this error message.
- On NewAccountTemplate.htm i get a warning message:
Warning '<% VerifyUrl %>' was not found.
What's going wrong? Am i overlooking something.
UPDATE 2:
If i add onsendingmail="CreateUserWizard1_SendingMail" It generate a link, however the link does not work because the user never gets added into the database i checked this. So when i click the link on the email it says bad request obv due to the fact there is no user with this ID. If i remove that line of code the user gets created but no link gets generated :/