试试这个,

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
            SmtpClient SmtpServer = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com");

            mail.From = new MailAddress("your_email_address@gmail.com");
            mail.To.Add("to_address");
            mail.Subject = "Test Mail";
            mail.Body = "This is for testing SMTP mail from GMAIL";

            SmtpServer.Port = 587;
            SmtpServer.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username", "password");
            SmtpServer.EnableSsl = true;

            SmtpServer.Send(mail);
            MessageBox.Show("mail Send");
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
        }
    }

如果您想发送后台邮件，请执行以下操作

 public void SendEmail(string address, string subject, string message)
 {
 Thread threadSendMails;
 threadSendMails = new Thread(delegate()
    {

      //Place your Code here 

     });
  threadSendMails.IsBackground = true;
  threadSendMails.Start();
}

并添加命名空间

using System.Threading;

你可以试试Mailkit。它为发送邮件提供了更好、更先进的功能。这里有一个例子

    MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage();
    message.From.Add(new MailboxAddress("FromName", "YOU_FROM_ADDRESS@gmail.com"));
    message.To.Add(new MailboxAddress("ToName", "YOU_TO_ADDRESS@gmail.com"));
    message.Subject = "MyEmailSubject";

    message.Body = new TextPart("plain")
    {
        Text = @"MyEmailBodyOnlyTextPart"
    };

    using (var client = new SmtpClient())
    {
        client.Connect("SERVER", 25); // 25 is port you can change accordingly

        // Note: since we don't have an OAuth2 token, disable
        // the XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism.
        client.AuthenticationMechanisms.Remove("XOAUTH2");

        // Note: only needed if the SMTP server requires authentication
        client.Authenticate("YOUR_USER_NAME", "YOUR_PASSWORD");

        client.Send(message);
        client.Disconnect(true);
    }

一定要使用System.Net。邮件，而不是已弃用的System.Web.Mail。使用System.Web.Mail进行SSL是一堆拙劣的扩展。

using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;

var fromAddress = new MailAddress("from@gmail.com", "From Name");
var toAddress = new MailAddress("to@example.com", "To Name");
const string fromPassword = "fromPassword";
const string subject = "Subject";
const string body = "Body";

var smtp = new SmtpClient
{
    Host = "smtp.gmail.com",
    Port = 587,
    EnableSsl = true,
    DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
    UseDefaultCredentials = false,
    Credentials = new NetworkCredential(fromAddress.Address, fromPassword)
};
using (var message = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress)
{
    Subject = subject,
    Body = body
})
{
    smtp.Send(message);
}

此外，转到谷歌帐户>安全页面，并查看登录谷歌> 2步验证设置。

如果启用了，那么您必须生成一个密码，允许. net绕过2步验证。点击“Signing in To谷歌> App passwords”，选择App = Mail, device = Windows Computer，最后生成密码。在fromPassword常量中使用生成的密码，而不是标准的Gmail密码。 如果它被禁用，那么你必须打开Less secure app access，这是不推荐的!所以最好启用两步验证。

上面的答案不管用。必须设置DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod。网络，否则将返回“客户端未经过身份验证”错误。此外，暂停总是一个好主意。

修改后的代码:

using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net;

var fromAddress = new MailAddress("from@gmail.com", "From Name");
var toAddress = new MailAddress("to@yahoo.com", "To Name");
const string fromPassword = "password";
const string subject = "test";
const string body = "Hey now!!";

var smtp = new SmtpClient
{
    Host = "smtp.gmail.com",
    Port = 587,
    EnableSsl = true,
    DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
    Credentials = new NetworkCredential(fromAddress.Address, fromPassword),
    Timeout = 20000
};
using (var message = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress)
{
    Subject = subject,
    Body = body
})
{
    smtp.Send(message);
}

编辑2022 从2022年5月30日起，谷歌将不再支持仅使用用户名和密码登录谷歌账户的第三方应用程序或设备。 但是你仍然可以通过你的gmail账户发送电子邮件。

访问https://myaccount.google.com/security，打开两步验证。如有需要，请电话确认。 点击“应用程序密码”，就在“2步验证”勾的下方。 请求邮件应用程序的新密码。

现在只需使用这个密码，而不是原来的一个为您的帐户!

public static void SendMail2Step(string SMTPServer, int SMTP_Port, string From, string Password, string To, string Subject, string Body, string[] FileNames) {            
            var smtpClient = new SmtpClient(SMTPServer, SMTP_Port) {
                DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false,
                EnableSsl = true
            };                
            smtpClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(From, Password); //Use the new password, generated from google!
            var message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(From, "SendMail2Step"), new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress(To, To));
            smtpClient.Send(message);
    }

像这样使用:

SendMail2Step("smtp.gmail.com", 587, "youraccount@gmail.com",
          "yjkjcipfdfkytgqv",//This will be generated by google, copy it here.
          "recipient@barcodes.bg", "test message subject", "Test message body ...", null);

对于其他答案工作“从服务器”首先打开访问gmail帐户不太安全的应用程序。这将在2022年5月30日被弃用

看来最近谷歌改变了安全策略。评分最高的答案不再有效，直到您更改您的帐户设置如下所述:https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en-GB 2016年3月，谷歌再次更改设置地点!