Searching StackOverflow, I found this question on how to Retrieve SMTP settings from Web.Config, but no details on how to update the SMTP back to the web.config file.
I started with the following code:
Configuration webConfig = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
MailSettingsSectionGroup settings =
(MailSettingsSectionGroup)webConfig.GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings");
SmtpSection smtp = settings.Smtp;
SmtpNetworkElement net = smtp.Network;
but was quickly clued in by Intellisense that SmptSection.Network
is a Get (aka "read-only") accessor.
So how am I supposed to programmatically write my SMTP data back to web.config?
You should be able to do something like this, does this work?:
Configuration webConfig = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
MailSettingsSectionGroup settings =
(MailSettingsSectionGroup)webConfig.GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings");
SmtpSection smtp = settings.Smtp;
SmtpNetworkElement net = smtp.Network;
net.Port = 25;
net.Host = "localhost";
webConfig.Save();
Take a look at this article: http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/8461.aspx
Looks like you need fairly high access (permissions) though.
Specifically from the article:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Configuration config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
wwDbResourceProviderSection Section = config.GetSection("wwDbResourceProvider") as wwDbResourceProviderSection;
Section.ShowControlIcons = true;
config.Save();
return;
}