How to send HTML-formatted email? [duplicate]

Question

I could be able to let the web application sends automatic emails using Windows Task Scheduler. Now I want to send HTML-Formatted email using the following method that I wrote for sending emails.

My code-behind:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        SmtpClient sc = new SmtpClient("mail address");
        MailMessage msg = null;

        try
        {
            msg = new MailMessage("[email protected]",
                "[email protected]", "Message from PSSP System",
                "This email sent by the PSSP system");

             sc.Send(msg);
        }

        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }

        finally
        {
            if (msg != null)
            {
                msg.Dispose();
            }
        }
    }

How to do that? I just want to put some bold text with one link and maybe one image in the email.

Shai · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-23 11:19:51Z

273

Setting isBodyHtml to true allows you to use HTML tags in the message body:

msg = new MailMessage("[email protected]",
                "[email protected]", "Message from PSSP System",
                "This email sent by the PSSP system<br />" +
                "<b>this is bold text!</b>");

msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

edited Jun 23, 2013 at 11:19

answered Dec 25, 2011 at 7:38

Shai

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4 Comments

Ullas Over a year ago

Can we use a custom font??

Lucas van Dongen Over a year ago

You can't customise fonts easily as custom fonts need to be supported by the mail client. A lot of mail clients still use very basic pre IE6 type of HTML so they will default to another font.

Tomas Kubes Over a year ago

So I don't need to use <HTML><BODY> tags?

Shahidul Haque Over a year ago

So if I want to add html in email subject, is that possible? In Subject I need to show in bold format like [Action Neede] on this request.

user3305711 · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-08 13:29:06Z

Best way to send html formatted Email

This code will be in "Customer.htm"

    <table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            Dealer's Company Name
        </td>
        <td>
            :
        </td>
        <td>
            #DealerCompanyName#
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Read HTML file Using System.IO.File.ReadAllText. get all HTML code in string variable.

string Body = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("EmailTemplates/Customer.htm"));

Replace Particular string to your custom value.

Body = Body.Replace("#DealerCompanyName#", _lstGetDealerRoleAndContactInfoByCompanyIDResult[0].CompanyName);

call SendEmail(string Body) Function and do procedure to send email.

 public static void SendEmail(string Body)
        {
            MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
            message.From = new MailAddress(Session["Email"].Tostring());
            message.To.Add(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["RequesEmail"].ToString());
            message.Subject = "Request from " + SessionFactory.CurrentCompany.CompanyName + " to add a new supplier";
            message.IsBodyHtml = true;
            message.Body = Body;

            SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
            smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = true;

            smtpClient.Host = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["SMTP"].ToString();
            smtpClient.Port = Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["PORT"].ToString());
            smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;
            smtpClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["USERNAME"].ToString(), ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["PASSWORD"].ToString());
            smtpClient.Send(message);
        }

Maybe use MailDefinition or RazorEngine stackoverflow.com/questions/10512845/…

Pawan Nogariya · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-25 07:50:48Z

22

This works for me

msg.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;

and then you can use html in your body

msg.Body = "<em>It's great to use HTML in mail!!</em>"

answered Dec 25, 2011 at 7:50

Pawan Nogariya

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2 Comments

David Sherret Over a year ago

This works for MailMessage in System.Web.Mail. Doing IsBodyHtml is for the one in System.Net.Mail

PhillipPDX Over a year ago

Mine was slightly different but it follows your pattern. MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage(emailMessage.SenderAddress, emailMessage.RecipientEmailAddress, emailMessage.Subject, emailMessage.Body); mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = true;'

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