I wrote the following piece of code for sending an email. First, I wanted to try it with gmail.

Code:
    public class EmailSender
    {
        public static void SendEmail(
                 string from,
                 string to,
                 string smtpaddress, int port,
                 string username,
                 string password,
                 string title,
                 string body)
        {
            try
            {
                SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(smtpaddress, port);
                client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password);
                client.EnableSsl = true;
                client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;

                MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
                mail.To.Add(to);
                mail.From = new MailAddress(from);
                mail.Subject = title;
                mail.Body = body;
                mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

                client.Send(mail);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }
        }
    }
Using this is pretty simple:
Code:
   class Program
   {
      public static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         EmailSender.SendEmail(
            "[email protected]",
            "[email protected]",
            "smtp.gmail.com",
            465,
            "john.doe",
            "password",
            "test",
            "<p>This is a test email!</p>");
      }
   }
This doesn't work. I get a SmtpException, "The operation has timed out."

I also tried it like this:
Code:
   class Program
   {
      public static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         EmailSender.SendEmail(
            "<[email protected]>",
            "<[email protected]>",
            "smtp.gmail.com",
            465,
            "john.doe",
            "password",
            "test",
            "<p>This is a test email!</p>");
      }
   }
Same problem. If I change the port to 587 (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...n&answer=13287), I get the following exception:
The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
Anyone has suggestions what could be wrong?

Thank you.