Send Email using SMTP Server

The .NET Framework includes the System.Net.Mail namespace, whcich provides classes to create and send email messages.Messages can include plain text,HTML and attachments

Creating & Send an email

Here We will create a class called email and we will implement the method called SendEmail inside the class.

Here the implemented class

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Remember you should add namespace "System.Net.Mail" first
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public class email
{
public int SendEmail()
{
try
{
//Create a MailMessage object
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

//To specify sender email address and Sender name
mail.From = new MailAddress("sender Email address", "Sender name");

//To specify recipient email address and recipient name
mail.To.Add(new MailAddress("recipient email address", "recipient name"));

//Set email Subject
mail.Subject = "Sample Email";

//Specify as HTML message body
mail.Body ="This is my message body";

//To Enable HTML body->You can type your message body using html tag.But blogger not support to post html tag in here.To enable HTML body you can use following code line.
//mail.IsBodyHtml = true;

//Attach files
mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(@"D:\oracle_database_11g.pdf"));


//Create a SmtpClient object
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();

//Assign a host for the client
client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com";

//Assign a port
client.Port=587;

//Give Credential information->Username and Password
client.Credentials=new System.Net.NetworkCredential("Your Username","Your Password");

//To enable SSL
client.EnableSsl=true;

//Send the mail
client.Send(mail);

return 1;
}
catch (Exception ex1)
{
MessageBox.Show(ex1.Message);
return 0;
}
}


}