using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net.Mime;
using System.IO;
using System.ComponentModel;
namespace Mail
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
}
static void PlainText()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void HtmlEmail()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is a sample body with html in it. <b>This is bold</b> <font color=#336699>This is blue</font>";
mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void MultiPartMime()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
//first we create the Plain Text part
AlternateView plainView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("This is my plain text content, viewable by those clients that don't support html", null, "text/plain");
//then we create the Html part
AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("<b>this is bold text, and viewable by those mail clients that support html</b>", null, "text/html");
mail.AlternateViews.Add(plainView);
mail.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1"); //specify the mail server address
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void FriendlyFromName()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
//to specify a friendly 'from' name, we use a different ctor
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com", "Steve James" );
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void FriendlyToName()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
//to specify a friendly 'from' name, we use a different ctor
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com", "Steve James");
//since the To,Cc, and Bcc accept addresses, we can use the same technique as the From address
mail.To.Add( new MailAddress( "you@yourcompany.com", "Beth Jones") );
mail.CC.Add(new MailAddress("donna@yourcompany.com", "Donna Summers"));
mail.Bcc.Add(new MailAddress("bob@yourcompany.com", "Bob Smith"));
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void MultipleRecipients()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
//to specify a friendly 'from' name, we use a different ctor
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com", "Steve James");
//since the To,Cc, and Bcc accept addresses, we can use the same technique as the From address
//since the To, Cc, and Bcc properties are collections, to add multiple addreses, we simply call .Add(
) multple times
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you2@yourcompany.com");
mail.CC.Add("cc1@yourcompany.com");
mail.CC.Add("cc2@yourcompany.com");
mail.Bcc.Add("blindcc1@yourcompany.com");
mail.Bcc.Add("blindcc2@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void FriendlyNonAsciiName()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
//to specify a friendly non ascii name, we use a different ctor.
//A ctor that accepts an encoding that matches the text of the name
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com", "Steve 豣irk", Encoding.GetEncoding( "iso-8859-1"));
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void SetPriority()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//specify the priority of the mail message
mail.Priority = MailPriority.High;
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void SetTheReplyToHeader()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//specify the priority of the mail message
mail.ReplyTo = new MailAddress("SomeOtherAddress@mycompany.com");
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void CustomHeaders()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//to add custom headers, we use the Headers.Add() method to add headers to the
//.Headers collection
mail.Headers.Add("X-Company", "My Company");
mail.Headers.Add("X-Location", "Hong Kong");
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void ReadReceipts()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//To request a read receipt, we need add a custom header named 'Disposition-Notification-To'
//in this example, read receipts will go back to 'someaddress@mydomain.com'
//it's important to note that read receipts will only be sent by those mail clients that
//a) support them
//and
//b)have them enabled.
mail.Headers.Add("Disposition-Notification-To", "<someaddress@mydomain.com>");
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void AttachmentFromFile()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this content is in the body";
//add an attachment from the filesystem
mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment("c:\\temp\\example.txt"));
//to add additional attachments, simply call .Add() again
mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment("c:\\temp\\example2.txt"));
mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment("c:\\temp\\example3.txt"));
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void AttachmentFromStream()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this content is in the body";
//Get some binary data
byte[] data = GetData();
//save the data to a memory stream
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(data);
//create the attachment from a stream. Be sure to name the data with a file and
//media type that is respective of the data
mail.Attachments.Add( new Attachment( ms, "example.txt", "text/plain" ));
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static byte[] GetData()
{
//this method just returns some binary data.
//it could come from anywhere, such as Sql Server
string s = "this is some text";
byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s);
return data;
}
static void LoadFromConfig(){
//the from address, along with the server properties will be set in the app.config,
//thus we don't need to specify them in code
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void Authenticate()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
//to authenticate we set the username and password properites on the SmtpClient
smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "secret");
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void ChangePort()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
mail.Body = "this is the body content of the email.";
//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1");
//to change the port (default is 25), we set the port property
smtp.Port = 587;
smtp.Send(mail);
}
static void EmbedImages()
{
//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("me@mycompany.com");
mail.To.Add("you@yourcompany.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "This is an email";
//first we create the Plain Text part
AlternateView plainView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("This is my plain text content, viewable by those clients that don't support html", null, "text/plain");
//then we create the Html part
//to embed images, we need to use the prefix 'cid' in the img src value
//the cid value will map to the Content-Id of a Linked resource.
//thus <img src='cid:companylogo'> will map to a LinkedResource with a ContentId of 'companylogo'
AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("Here is an embedded image.<img src=cid:companylogo>", null, "text/html");
//create the LinkedResource (embedded image)
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