[Solved] Why does creating contact forms require a password? [closed]

Question

You absolutely don’t want the users password.

But for your contact form to be able to send a mail it needs to be send by a valid email client. Say for example you want to use the gmail server for your mail, you need to provide your credentials for it.

As for the second part of your question, please don’t store these plain text in code. You can easily acces those from app.config / web.config

(for example see: Embed credentials for webclient in C# Console Application app.config?)

Accepted Answer

You absolutely don’t want the users password.

But for your contact form to be able to send a mail it needs to be send by a valid email client. Say for example you want to use the gmail server for your mail, you need to provide your credentials for it.

As for the second part of your question, please don’t store these plain text in code. You can easily acces those from app.config / web.config

(for example see: Embed credentials for webclient in C# Console Application app.config?)