by Brad
12. June 2007 09:36
Its very easy to send an email using .NET 2.0 and you can choose to send HTML and/or plain text using the AlternateView collection on the MailMessage class.
However until reading about it in my MCTS exam book i didn't realise that you could embed images (well anything i guess) into the email, i assumed you were limited to having to have them on a public website and then having a link to them... resulting in most email clients (gmail/outlook that i use) not downloading the images by default for security reasons. I'm sure you'll agree this is annoying, especially if you've spent time and money creating a fancy looking e-newsletter!
public static void SendEmail(MailAddress To, MailAddress From, string Subject, string ImageFilePath)
{
//Create HTML body
string htmlbody = "<html><body><h1>Hello!</h1><br /><img src=\"cid:Pic1\" /></body></html>";
//Create HTML AlternativeView
AlternateView avHTML = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(htmlbody, null, MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);
//Create LinkedResource to hold the image
LinkedResource pic1 = new LinkedResource(ImageFilePath, MediaTypeNames.Image.Gif);
pic1.ContentId = "Pic1";
avHTML.LinkedResources.Add(pic1);
//Add alternative view to message instead of using .Body
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.AlternateViews.Add(avHTML);
//Add addresses and subject
mail.To.Add(To);
mail.From = From;
mail.Subject = Subject;
//Send email
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("smtpout.secureserver.net");
smtp.Credentials = EmailCred;
smtp.Send(mail);
}
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