Introduction
.NET and .NET Core come with built-in support for sending emails through the System.Net.Mail namespace.
Prerequisites
- Visual Studio installed on your system
- A basic knowledge of .Net and C#
Send an Email
We will be using Google's SMTP servers for this example, you will need to enable Less secure app access on your profile's Security page: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
var smtpClient = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com")
{
Port = 587,
Credentials = new NetworkCredential("youremail@gmail.com", "yourpassword"),
EnableSsl = true,
};
smtpClient.Send("youremail@gmail.com", "recipient@example.com", "Sending Email with .Net", "Hello World!");There's an overloaded Send-method that accepts a MailMessage object to help build the email message:
MailMessage message = new MailMessage("youremail@gmail.com", "recipient@example.com", "Sending Email with .Net", "Hello World!");
NetworkCredential netCred = new NetworkCredential("youremail@gmail.com","yourpassword");
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587);
smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
smtpClient.Credentials = netCred;
smtpClient.Send(message);Using Mailazy
Mailazy supports both SMTP and Email API. With SMTP, you can use either the SmtpClient class or the MailKit package. All you need to do is to replace the SMTP server, port, and credentials with those obtained from Mailazy.
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
class Example
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var mail = new MailMessage();
//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("sender@example.com", "sender");
mail.To.Add("recipient@example.com");
//set the content
mail.Subject = "Sending with Mailazy";
//set the plain text part
var plainView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("Hello World!", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8,
"text/plain");
//then set the html part
var htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("<b>Hello World!</b>",
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "text/html");
mail.AlternateViews.Add(plainView);
mail.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);
//send the message
var smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.mailazy.com", 587);
smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<access_key>", "<access_secret>");
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.Send(mail);
}
}