Sending an email with an image embedded in the body from C#

Question

Hello,

My problem is how to send an email with attachemnts to the default mail client programmatically.

My requirements are:

1. setting destination, CC, BCC
2. link to attachment(s)
3. adding and image like a banner in the message body

I succeded to compose an email in the various ways and adding attachments are not the problem but adding an embedded image is.

I had composed the message body as HTML and had integrated the image Base64 encoded but Outlook and Outlook Express does not recognized the image. Why?

Does anybody have a solution to my problems.

I solved a part of my problems calling MAPI.

Answer 1

Hai patrik,

Have a look at this Sending Email with an embedded image

and this sending email with image

or this in Stack overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1113345/sending-mail-along-with-embedded-image-using-asp-net

Answer 2

The easiest way we found was to use ChillKat's email component. http://www.chilkatsoft.com/

Alternatively you can use CDO and the Windows dll, so its a bit different to use compared to a proper .Net class.

In our case we were generating the body from a url, which is why we went that route. There may be similar solutions if you are generating the body in your code.