How to suppress email validation when using SmtpClient and MailMessage

Posted by Matthias on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Matthias
Published on 2010-06-09T07:30:27Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 7:52 UTC
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When sending out emails using the SmtpClient and a MailMessage (.net 3.5) the "To" email address(es) get validated prior to sending. I've got a big stack of email addresses which have a dot (.) before the at-sign, causing a FormatException when you attempt to send the message using the SmtpClient. This is actually a good thing, because by specification a dot before the at-sign is invalid. Unfortunately, those emails exist in the real world and they get delivered, if you send them out using your preferred email client.

My question is, can email validation through the SmtpClient/MailMessage be suppressed?

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