VB.NET 2005 SMTP Email Message

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Introduction

I needed to send an SMTP email to multiple recipients with multiple attachments using VB.NET 2005. Sending an SMTP email in VB.NET 2005 has changed a little since VB.NET 2003. I have updated the class so that the SendEmailMessage procedure is overloaded to accept either multiple recipients and multiple attachments or a single recipient and a single attachment. This makes it a little easier so that you do not need to instantiate two string arrays if you are only sending an email to one recipient.

Create a class file with this code:

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.net.Mail

Public Class SendEmail
    Public Sub SendEmailMessage(ByVal strFrom As String, ByVal strTo() _
    As String, ByVal strSubject _
    As String, ByVal strMessage _
    As String, ByVal fileList() As String)
        'This procedure takes string array parameters for multiple recipients and files
        Try
            For Each item As String In strTo
                'For each to address create a mail message
                Dim MailMsg As New MailMessage(New MailAddress(strFrom.Trim()), _
                               New MailAddress(item))
                MailMsg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Default
                MailMsg.Subject = strSubject.Trim()
                MailMsg.Body = strMessage.Trim() & vbCrLf
                MailMsg.Priority = MailPriority.High
                MailMsg.IsBodyHtml = True

                'attach each file attachment
                For Each strfile As String In fileList
                    If Not strfile = "" Then
                        Dim MsgAttach As New Attachment(strfile)
                        MailMsg.Attachments.Add(MsgAttach)
                    End If
                Next

                'Smtpclient to send the mail message
                Dim SmtpMail As New SmtpClient
                SmtpMail.Host = "10.10.10.10"
                SmtpMail.Send(MailMsg)
            Next
            'Message Successful
        Catch ex As Exception
            'Message Error
        End Try
    End Sub

    Public Sub SendEmailMessage(ByVal strFrom As String, ByVal strTo _
    As String, ByVal strSubject _
    As String, ByVal strMessage _
    As String, ByVal file As String)
        'This procedure overrides the first procedure and accepts a single
        'string for the recipient and file attachement 
        Try
            Dim MailMsg As New MailMessage(New MailAddress(strFrom.Trim()), _
                           New MailAddress(strTo))
            MailMsg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.Default
            MailMsg.Subject = strSubject.Trim()
            MailMsg.Body = strMessage.Trim() & vbCrLf
            MailMsg.Priority = MailPriority.High
            MailMsg.IsBodyHtml = True

            If Not file = "" Then
                Dim MsgAttach As New Attachment(file)
                MailMsg.Attachments.Add(MsgAttach)
            End If

            'Smtpclient to send the mail message
            Dim SmtpMail As New SmtpClient
            SmtpMail.Host = "10.10.10.10"
            SmtpMail.Send(MailMsg)
        Catch ex As Exception
            'Message Error
        End Try
    End Sub
End Class

Instead of setting the SMTP host settings inside the class, you can configure it inside the Web.Config file.

<system.net>    
<mailSettings>
<!-- these settings define the mail server settings
    from: the user name from which the email is sent - this is the
    application that is sending the message
    host: the name of your mail server
    userName: the name the application will use to log into the mail server
    password: the password for the above user name      -->
  <smtp from="admin@your-domain.com">
    <network host="your-mail-server-name"
             userName="your-user-name"
             password="your-password" />
  </smtp>
 </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Use this code in your form code or in an ASP.NET code-behind:

Dim SendEmail As New SendEmail
Dim SendTo(2) As String
Dim FileAttach(2) As String
Dim strSubject As String
Dim strMessage As String

SendTo(0) = "someone@email.com"
SendTo(1) = "someoneelse@email.com"

FileAttach(0) = "c:\text.txt"
FileAttach(1) = "c:\Othertext.txt"

strSubject = "Email Subject"

strMessage = "Email Messge Text" 'The body encoding is set to HTML 

SendEmail.SendEmailMessage("fromsomeone@email.com", SendTo, _
          strSubject, strMessage, FileAttach)

Since SendEmailMessage is overloaded, you can send an email to a single recipient with a single attachment.

Dim SendEmail As New SendEmail
Dim SendTo As String
Dim FileAttach As String
Dim strSubject As String
Dim strMessage As String

SendTo = "someone@email.com"

FileAttach(0) = "c:\text.txt"

strSubject = "Email Subject"

strMessage = "Email Messge Text" 'The body encoding is set to HTML 

SendEmail.SendEmailMessage("fromsomeone@email.com", SendTo, _
          strSubject, strMessage, FileAttach)

History

• 07-11-2006: Article and source updated.