I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few months building a website, and as always, there is much help and information available on the internet. Something I struggled with however was the sending of emails… How can I send an email from my site without blocking the calling process? “Use sendAsync!” I hear people shouting. Having tried this I can say that it doesn’t help where asp.net is concerned. I implemented it myself, and whilst it is almost seamless on a web server with fast connectivity to the smtp box, what I found is there are occasions where this just isn’t fast enough, and the user experience suffers. Here’s what I have done to resolve this… I hope it saves someone the head scratching that I went through 😉