How to create and display email message?
I am trying to create an email message from a VB.NET 2005 app. I am attaching a file and would like to display the email message to the user so that they can edit the message as well as enter the send to address.
There seems to be a ton of examples on how to create AND SEND an email directly from code,but I don't want to send it! Just create it and display it and allow the user to edit.
Do I have to use Outlook and automation? I would rather use the System.Net.Mail functions if possible.
Thanks,
Jim
interesting.
you can have an "editor" customely created for example, so you can have a "send, cc, subject, body, attachments" field.
if you don't want to send it, then don't call the Smtp.Send() method at all.
Create the MailMessage object, apply the values to the properties and do whatever you like after it.
I guess it's a bit tricky to explain.
As said above, you can create your own "email editor". Then, you can create a MailMessage object and set the properties to whatever you like.
If you want to "edit" a MailMessage, just make sure you have the MailMessage object already containing values in the fields, or at least having an instance of it, then simply "bind" the values from the MailMessage object to your text editor fields.
I hope this makes sense in some way.
Here is a simple example I'm using to do it.
Dim message As New MailMessage(SenderMail, TargetMailAddress, ObjectString , txtBodyMessage)
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient(MailServer)
message.Priority = MailPriority.High
emailClient.Send(message)
message = Nothing
emailClient = Nothing
SenderMail, TargetMailAddress, ObjectString , txtBodyMessage Are variables you have to set with you data. It could be a simple user editor with 4 texboxes and a button to send the mail for example.
If what you want is an Outlook Style mails management with folder storaging, messages files and so on... I think you have to use OUTLOOK interop.
I hope this could help you.
Dario
