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Send MIME-encoded file as e-mail in C#

I've got the problem that I have a MIME-encoded file with all relevant mail information (subject, from, to, ...) and want to send it over a defined SMTP server via C#.

I've looked at the MailMessage class and searched for a solution, but I couldn't find something fitting. Are you able to help me?

Thanks, Matthias

Solution

  • The current version of the standard .NET framework does not support it AFAIK. However you will find such functionality in most third-party mail components.

    Following code uses our Rebex Mail library.

    using Rebex.Net; // Smtp class
using Rebex.Mail; // contains the MailMessage and other classes 

// create an instance of MailMessage 
MailMessage message = new MailMessage();

// load the message from a local disk file 
message.Load("c:\\message.eml");

Smtp.Send(message, "smtp.example.org");

    The code is taken from Rebex SMTP Tutorial and Rebex MailMessage tutorial.