Sending Email using C# (with HTML body & Attachment )

How to send email (with HTML body and attachment )from C# or ASP.net using smtp server.

Introduction
This article is provide a basic idea how we can send Emails from a C# Windows Application.
Here I have described how we can send mail with Attachment and HTML body.

Description
If we want to send mail then we need to know following things
1. SMTP Server address
2. Port No

Here I have used gmail as a SMTP Server
for gmail account
SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com
SMTP port : 465 or 587
your account Name:###
your password:###

Lets Start Our Work

Step 1.
Add following Namespace

using System.Net.Mail; //Added for using MailMessage class using System.Net; //Added for using NetworkCredential class

Step2.
Create your smtp client

SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(); client.Host = txtServer.Text; //Set your smtp host address client.Port = int.Parse(txtPort.Text); // Set your smtp port address client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network; client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(txtUsername.Text, txtPassword.Text); //account name and password client.EnableSsl = true; // Set SSL = true

step 3.
Setup e-mail message

MailMessage message = new MailMessage(); message.To.Add(txtTo.Text); // Add Receiver mail Address message.From = new MailAddress(txtUsername.Text); // Sender address message.Subject = txtSubject.Text; message.IsBodyHtml = true; //HTML email message.Body = txtBody.Text;

Attaching File to message

if (lstAttachedFiels.Items.Count > 0) { Attachment a; foreach ( string s in lstAttachedFiels.Items) { a = new Attachment(s); message.Attachments.Add(a); //Adding attachment to message } }

Sending Mail

client.Send(message);