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SendMail

Published in: C# 

A simple function to send an email in .NET. You can add this to a utility class and use as needed. A more complicated example can embed HTML templates for various communications.


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  1. // Make mail easy to send.
  2. public static string SendMail(string from, string to, string subject, string body, string smtp)
  3. {
  4.     // Create new MailMessage Object
  5.     MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to, subject, body);
  6.  
  7.     //message.Bcc.Add("someone@tobcc.com");
  8.  
  9.     message.IsBodyHtml = true;
  10.  
  11.     // Create new SmtpClient Object
  12.     SmtpClient mailClient = new SmtpClient(smtp, 25);
  13.  
  14.     try
  15.     {
  16.         // Send eMail and return 1 if successful
  17.         // otherwise return error message
  18.         mailClient.Send(message);
  19.         return "1";
  20.     }
  21.     catch (System.Net.Mail.SmtpException e)
  22.     {
  23.         // create or append errors to a log file
  24.         CreateLogFiles.CreateLogFiles Err = new CreateLogFiles.CreateLogFiles();
  25.         Err.ErrorLog(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("/logs/ErrorLog.log"), e.InnerException.Message);
  26.         return e.InnerException.Message;
  27.     }
  28. }

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