Hi there,

I am using the Import Namespace System.Web.Mail to send myself information from a form online. I can easily get all the information into the email and it sends nicely but my problem is it one continous string..... how do i put line breaks in there. i tried...

 & "<br />" which puts it in the text.
 & <br /> but it spits out an error...

any help would be appreciated on this one! thanks for your help!

David

David

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David Jenkins

I haven't used the .NET Mail namespace yet,
But with other mail objects I have used you need to set the BodyFormat (Or similar property) to "HTML" to effect the use of "<BR/>".
Alternatively you can enter a text line break.
For c# this is "\n".
eg. messageTXT = "This is line one.\nLine two.\nLine Three";
<BR/> without the quotes will not work in any case.

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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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PS. Text line break is when the BodyFormat is not "HTML",
i.e.BodyFormat is "TEXT".
Reading my message back it read as thought "\n" was an alternative to "<BR/>", which it is not.
TEXT Format is alternative to HTML, and they use \n and <BR> respectively.

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They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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cheers for the response i set the newMail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html then used the <br /> tags. thanks for the response

David

Ok i was testing on my localhost and it was sending me emails perfectly.... I have just deployed it to a web server and now i get an error... does anyone know what this means please.

The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.

Source Error:


Line 18: newMail.Body = "A user has requested information from your Kleeneze website." & "<br /><br /><br />" & txtName.Text & "<br />" & txtSurname.Text & "<br />" & txtAddress.Text & "<br />" & txtPhone.Text
Line 19:
Line 20: SmtpMail.Send(newMail) 'This sends the email.
Line 21:
Line 22:


Source File: C:\Inetpub\vhosts\1stmillion.co.uk\httpdocs\info.a spx Line: 20

Stack Trace:


[COMException (0x80040220): The "SendUsing" configuration value is invalid.
]

[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
   System.RuntimeType.InvokeDispMethod(String name, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Object target, Object[] args, Boolean[] byrefModifiers, Int32 culture, String[] namedParameters) +0
   System.RuntimeType.InvokeMember(String name, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object target, Object[] args, ParameterModifier[] modifiers, CultureInfo culture, String[] namedParameters) +473
   System.Web.Mail.LateBoundAccessHelper.CallMethod(O bject obj, String methodName, Object[] args) +58

[HttpException (0x80004005): Could not access 'CDO.Message' object.]
   System.Web.Mail.LateBoundAccessHelper.CallMethod(O bject obj, String methodName, Object[] args) +112
   System.Web.Mail.CdoSysHelper.Send(MailMessage message) +1861
   System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(MailMessage message) +153
   ASP.info_aspx.btnSubmit_Click(Object Sender, EventArgs exc) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\1stmillion.co.uk\httpdocs\info.a spx:20
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +108
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPo stBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +57
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEve ntHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +18
   System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCol lection postData) +33
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +1292


Thanks for any help

David

Typically this exception has to deal with the ABSENCE of the following line of code:
SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "mail.your-domain.com"
If you are using the local SMTP Service to send emails, you may try the following values:
"127.0.0.1"
"localhost"
"the_machine_name_here"
"the_real_dns_name_here"
"the_machine_IP_Address_here"

From http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/4.2.2.aspx

hi there,

The solution solved one problem then created another but that site managed to sort me out! Thanks to all for your help =)

David

Ok.... sorry i wanted to ask a question this is me being a little dumb... I think i tried everything here.... how do i get the results of a checkbox into an email?

ie with textbox i do txtName.Text
with the checkbox i tried... chkBox.SelectedItem.Value .Value .Item .SelectedIndex .... none worked... ag

David

.Checked is the property for whether or not is has been selected.
.Text is the property for the text displayed with the checkbox.

======================================
They say, best men are molded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
======================================

cool thanks i should have known that - lol. cheers

David