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send smtp mail including html to gmail account

Answer 1

+1 A:

Something like this should work:

Note that MailMessage refers to System.Net.MailMessage. There is also System.Web.MailMessage, which I have never used and -as far as I know- is obsolete.

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
// Very basic html. HTML should always be valid, otherwise you go to spam
message.Body = "<html><body><p>test</p></body></html>"; 
// QuotedPrintable encoding is the default, but will often lead to trouble, 
// so you should set something meaningful here. Could also be ASCII or some ISO
message.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
message.IsBodyHtml = true;
// No Subject usually goes to spam, too
message.Subject = "Some Subject";
// Note that you can add multiple recipients, bcc, cc rec., etc. Using the 
// address-only syntax, i.e. w/o a readable name saves you from some issues
message.To.Add("[email protected]");

// SmtpHost, -Port, -User, -Password must be a valid account you can use to 
// send messages. Note that it is very often required that the account you
// use also has the specified sender address associated! 
// If you configure the Smtp yourself, you can change that of course
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(SmtpHost, SmtpPort) {
            Credentials = new NetworkCredential(SmtpUser, SmtpPassword),
            EnableSsl = enableSsl;
        };

        try {
            // It might be necessary to enforce a specific sender address, see above
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ForceSenderAddress)) {
                message.From = new MailAddress(ForceSenderAddress);
            }
            client.Send(message);
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            return false;
        }

For more sophisticated templating solutions that render the Body html rather than hard-codin it, there is, for example, the EMailTemplateService in MvcContrib which you can use as a guideline.

mnemosyn 2010-03-13 18:45:54

ok, I am not sure why my code didn't work before. I copied your code here and it works great, thank you!

vondip 2010-03-13 18:53:12

Answer 2

+1 A:

One way to do it is to create an alternate html view of the email:

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.Body = //plain-text version of message
//set up message...

//create html view
string htmlBody = "<html>...</html>";
htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(htmlBody, null, "text/html");
message.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);

//send message
smtpClient.Send(message);

Lee 2010-03-13 18:57:18

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