Sending Email from your .Net Application
6/3/2003 9:57:53 PM
The following article covers using the built-in System.Web.Mail objects for writing code to email from a Web page using VB and ASP.Net.
The .Net framework comes complete with feature rich email sending capabilities. No more need to use third party components, now you have it built into the framework.
The following code provides a quick overview of calling the MailMessage object from ASP.Net
First make sure you create a reference to the System.Web.Mail at the top of your VB class file.
Imports System.Web.Mail
The following code snippet is a VB subroutine that we create for calling from any of your ASPX pages.
Public Sub SendEmail(ByVal strFrom As String, ByVal strTo As String, ByVal strBcc As String, ByVal strSubject As String, ByVal strBody As String, Optional ByVal strAttachment As String = "", Optional ByVal strBodyType As String = "")
Dim mail As New MailMessage
'set the email options for sending
mail.From = strFrom
mail.To = strTo
If strBcc <> "" Then
mail.Bcc = strBcc
End If
mail.Subject = strSubject
mail.Body = strBody
'here we check if we want to format the email as html or plain text.
If strBodyType <> "" Then
Select Case LCase(strBodyType)
Case "html"
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
Case "text"
mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text
End Select
End If
'if there is an attachment send it.
If strAttachment <> "" Then
mail.Attachments.Add(New MailAttachment(strAttachment))
End If
' external SMTP server
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = “yourmailserver.santry.com“
Try
SmtpMail.Send(mail)
Catch
' any errors here do something, notify the user, etc.
End Try
End Sub
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