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5. Save all changes and request SignUp.aspx in your browser. Enter the required details for a new
account and click Create User to sign up for an account. If you get an error about specifying a
From address, make sure you assigned a valid e-mail address to the from attribute in the Web.config
file:
Refer to Chapter 9 to see how to add this attribute. Make sure you enter a valid e-mail address or
the mail server may still reject it.
6. After a while, you should receive an e-mail that contains the welcome text you typed in step 2.
Figure 16-12 shows the message with the UserName and Password placeholders replaced with the
details that you entered in step 5.
FIGURE 16-12
How It Works
The CreateUserWizard comes with built-in functionality to send a confirmation message to the user. It
doesn’t send the message until you specify the element. You use the BodyFileName
property to point to a text file or an HTML file that is used as the e-mail’s body.
Within this body, you can use the special placeholders and ,
which are replaced automatically with the actual username and password that the user entered in the
signup form.