Executable can not send an email when called by Task Scheduler - task

I have written a C# .net executable that sends an email through an outlook exchange server. Everything works fine when I run it manually, but when I use a scheduled task to call the executable it doesn't send the email. Everything else works fine, but the email doesn't get sent. I set the scheduled task to run as my user account. When the task is running I can see in Task Manager that the executable is running under my username. This rules out any obvious permissions issues.
While debugging I made the program output some text to a file on a network share on the same machine on which Exchange is running. This file outputs fine, so I know that the program can connect to that machine.
Can anyone help?

Ok, as you can see above I was trying to send mail through a running instance of Outlook. Although I wasn't able to post code without in a comment box without pulling my hair out #amitapollo gave me the clue to use the System.Net.Mail namespace. At the end of the day I got it to work. Here's my code:
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtpClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("myExchangeServerIPAddress");
smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
smtpClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("myDomain\\myUsername", "myPassword");
smtpClient.DeliveryMethod = System.Net.Mail.SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Store xStore = new System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Store();
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.OpenFlags xFlag = System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.OpenFlags.ReadOnly;
xStore.Open(xFlag);
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate2Collection xCertCollection = xStore.Certificates;
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate xCert = new System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate();
foreach (System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate _Cert in xCertCollection)
{
if (_Cert.Subject.Contains("myUsername#myDomain.com"))
{
xCert = _Cert;
}
}
smtpClient.ClientCertificates.Add(xCert);
//I was having problems with the remote certificate no being validated so I had to override all security settings with this line of code...
System.Net.ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = delegate(object s, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Certificate certificate, System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509Chain chain, System.Net.Security.SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors) { return true; };
smtpClient.Send("myUsername#myDomain.com", "myUsername#myDomain.com", "mySubject", "myBody");

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I've got the following code...
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When run, the code fails on the indicated like with AuthenticationException: The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.
I initially thought that is was 'cos the account had 2-step authentication on. So, I set up another account ensuring it just used the regular authentication settings and I got the same error.
I have found a number of posts, here and elsewhere, that deal with this exception but they seem to deal with the issue of working with the SmtpClient() and here, as you can see from the code, I'm getting the error with the ImapClient().
Can anyone suggest what it is that may be the cause of the error? Is it GMail? MailKit? .NET? All of the above?
The problem is that your system does not accept the GMail's SSL certificate.
You can override client.ServerCertificateValidationCallback.
A very simple example of a solution might look like this:
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I am writing an MVC application which needs to request owner names for ip addresses from ARIN.net. Here is the snippet of program code that I have written to do this:
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string requestUrl = "http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/17.151.229.4";
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This snippet of code is successfully able to send a request to http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/17.151.229.4 and receive the appropriate response when it is run from a console application on my machine. However, when I attempt to put this snippet of code in my MVC application, I get an exception stating
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My local machine, where these applications run, is inside the network of a very large corporation and therefore this snippet must send its request to ARIN through a proxy server when it is run by the previously mentioned applications. I believe that I'm probably receiving this discrepancy in results due to the console application running under a different user than the MVC application. I'm running both applications in debug mode in Visual Studio 2013. The MVC application is hosted by IIS Express when it is run in debug mode.
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How can I configure IIS Express to run the MVC application under a different user?
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I therefore had to assign the proxy server to the proxy object instance of the WebRequest instance in my code before attempting to retrieve a response:
string requestUrl = "http://whois.arin.net/rest/ip/17.151.229.4";
WebResponse response = null;
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl);
Uri newUri = new Uri("http://proxy.bigcorp.com:8080");
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</body>
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