Page 532

Antonius Block · April 27th, 2012, 04:48 PM

In the "How it works" of the "Try it out" of page 532 you say that we can use either a text file or an HTML file as the email's body.

The text file works well, as you show in the Try it out.
But if the BodyFileName property points to an HTML file like the following:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
Good morning <% UserName %>, 
<br /><br />
at <a>www.PlanetWrox.com</a>, a new account was created with the following details: 
<br /><br />
User:      <% UserName %>
<br />
Password:  <% Password %>

<br /><br /><br />
We look forward to your contribution
<br /><br />
The Planet Wrox team
<br /><br />
<img src="../Images/Banner480x60.gif" alt="Planet Wrox banner" />
</body>
</html>

the opening and closing tags will be sent in the email as plain text.

How can I avoid that ?

Thank you

Imar · April 29th, 2012, 05:58 AM

Hi there,

When sending mail as HTML, there are a few things you need to take into account:

1. You need to set IsBodyHhtml to true on the MailMessage object:

Code:

myMessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

2. You don't need to send the doctype and HTML / body tags. All you need is the part within the <body> tags.

3. Images need to be resolvable at the client. In other words, this:

Code:

<img src="../Images/Banner480x60.gif" alt="Planet Wrox banner" />

will never work as the image will be searched for at the user's local machine. Instead, you need a full URL, like this:

Code:

<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/Images/Banner480x60.gif" alt="Planet Wrox banner" />

If you're testing this locally, you can use http://localhost:12345 where 12345 is the port number of your development server.

Hope this helps,

Imar