Email handling in C#

Question

I need to know the object name for handling emails in C#/.NET Framework.

Answer 1

System.Net.Mail is the namespace to look in. Start with SmtpClient or MailMessage.

Answer 2

You need the namespace System.Net.Mail.

Here is an example from the ScottGu's blog.

MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
message.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]"); 

message.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]"));
message.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]"));
message.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]")); 

message.CC.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]"));
message.Subject = "This is my subject";
message.Body = "This is the content";


SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
client.Send(message);

Answer 3

In addition to Ekeko's answer if you would like to use an external mail server you must specify the host in the SmtpClient constructor.

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("mail.yourmailserver.com");

And you might also need authentication to be specified if your server requires it.

client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");

Answer 4

These answers are assuming that you are asking about SMTP handling. POP3 is not handled natively in the .NET framework. You will have to purchase a third-party library. I'd recommend the Ostrosoft POP3 library.

Answer 5

There is a bunch of questions in stack Overflow that describes how you can send.

• Sending E-mail using C#
• send email c#