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nt86

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Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 08, 2010 02:44 PM|LINK

I have a Contact us form where the user inputs certain data and it sends to a email address ive specified. This is working well however i cannot format the email properly for example i want the email address they enter to come up as the from address in the email sent to my inbox. Im also looking to send the "name field" which i cannot do at the moment, in my code. It will only take 2 arguments and i cannot add any other fields into it. Would appreciate if anyone could help me with this, Thanks

 protected void btnContact_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SendMail(txtEmail.Text, txtComments.Text);
    }




    private void SendMail(string from, string body)
    {
        string mailServerName = "smtp.gmail.com";
        MailMessage MyMailmessage = new MailMessage(from, "address@mail.com", "password", body);

        MyMailmessage.Subject = txtEmail.Text;
        SmtpClient mailClient = new SmtpClient();
        mailClient.EnableSsl = true;
        mailClient.Host = mailServerName;
        mailClient.Send(MyMailmessage);

    }

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kushalrdalal

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 08, 2010 03:51 PM|LINK

The from you can specify as txtFrom.Text in your

You can have stringbuilder and then append it as per your format requirement and then in your body you can do sb.toString().

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ramiramilu

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 08, 2010 05:48 PM|LINK

Hello,

I want t oshpw you a sample email body formation in html -

StringBuilder SbBody = new StringBuilder();
            SbBody.Append("Customer Details - <br/>");
            SbBody.Append("Name - " + txtName.Text + "<br/>");
            SbBody.Append("Address - " + txtAddress.Text + "<br/>");
            SbBody.Append("Email - " + txtEmail.Text + "<br/>");
            SbBody.Append("Phone - " + txtPhone.Text + "<br/>");
            SbBody.Append("Comments - " + txtComments.Text + "<br/>");
            SbBody.Append("<hr/>");

There txtName.Text is customer name textbox in the contact page...and i think the other fields are self explanatory as the preceeding....

And to send an html email....

                   MailMessage m = new MailMessage();
                   SmtpClient sc = new SmtpClient();
            try
            {
                m.From = new MailAddress("from@gmail.com", "Display name");
                m.To.Add(new MailAddress("to@domain.com", "Display name To"));
                m.CC.Add(new MailAddress("CC@yahoo.com", "Display name CC"));
                //similarly BCC
                m.Subject = "Test1";
                m.IsBodyHtml = true;
                m.Body = " This is a Test Mail";

                //To attache files
                FileStream fs = new FileStream("E:\\TestFolder\\test.pdf",
                                   FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
                Attachment a = new Attachment(fs, "test.pdf",
                                   MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet);
                m.Attachments.Add(a);

                //To embed images in email
                string str = "<html><body><h1>Picture</h1><br/><img
                                 src=\"cid:image1\"></body></html>";
                AlternateView av =
                             AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(str,
                             null,MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);
                LinkedResource lr = new LinkedResource("E:\\Photos\\hello.jpg",
                             MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg);
                lr.ContentId = "image1";
                av.LinkedResources.Add(lr);
                m.AlternateViews.Add(av);

                // smtp configuration settings...
                sc.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
                sc.Port = 587;
                sc.Credentials = new
                  System.Net.NetworkCredential(“from@gmail.com","Password");
                sc.EnableSsl = true;
                sc.Send(m);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                  Response.Write(ex.Message);
            }

And in the above cse in the m.body...u can use the stringbuilder string to form html email body.....

And also thr Display name in the To, FROM address are self explanatory....

Hope this helps....

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samuel24

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 09, 2010 04:33 AM|LINK

Hi In Asp.net Email Sending we can format the sending text with Html Tags.

Try this link for sending Email.

http://dotetpgm.blogspot.com

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Vipindas

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 09, 2010 05:10 AM|LINK

Use HtmlTextWriter Class

http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/UploadFile/scottlysle/HtmTextWriterIntro11132006230833PM/HtmTextWriterIntro.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.htmltextwriter.aspx

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nt86

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 09, 2010 01:42 PM|LINK

Thanks for the example, i just noticed something in my code, in my web config i have my system.net mail settings and i have smtp from ="test@gmail.com" im guessing this is making the test@gmail.com email address to show up as the from address when the email is sent. How should i change that?

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp from="test@gmail.com">
        <network host="smtp.gmail.com" password="password" port="587"
          userName="test@gmail.com" />
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>

            {
          
                SendMail(txtSubject.Text, txtComments.Text);
            }
<div></div>

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MasterV23

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 09, 2010 02:16 PM|LINK

You should be using "System.Net.Mail"

Then use MailMessage

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Vipindas

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Feb 10, 2010 05:58 AM|LINK

http://www.aspxcode.net/free-asp-net-data-sample-source-code.aspx?Topics=how%20to%20sent%20Mail%20by%20System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/EmailApplication.aspx

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Re: Formatting Email sent in c#

Feb 10, 2010 06:08 AM|LINK

Formating an larg mail with fix Template(formate) i will suggest you please not use string operation to create partcular formate.

regardign this you can use XSLT file to generate HTML code and send this html code as string.

YOu can study XSLt from http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

http://aspalliance.com/1296_Transform_XML_into_HTML_Using_XSLT

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Feb 10, 2010 06:30 AM|LINK

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