Sending HTML Mail with Embedded Image in .NET
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by Soyuj Kumar Sahoo
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A mail with multiple recipients and attachments

The "From" property of MailMessage is of MailAddress type. But the To, CC, and Bcc properties of MailMessage are MailAddress collections. So to add additional recipients, all we need to do is call .Add(...) on the respective properties.

Below is an example that demonstrates adding multiple To, CC, and Bcc addresses.

Listing 7 – Sample for attachment mail

Public Sub MultipleRecipients()
 
        'create the mail message
        Dim mail As New MailMessage()
 
        'set the addresses
        '-----------------------------------
        'to specify a friendly 'from' name, we use a different display name
        mail.From = New MailAddress("from@fromdomain.com""Display Name")
 
        'since the To, Cc, and Bcc properties are collections, to add multiple
         addreses, we simply call .Add(...) multple times
        mail.To.Add("to@todomain.com")
        mail.To.Add("to2@to2domain.com")
        mail.CC.Add("cc1@cc1domain.com")
        mail.CC.Add("cc2@cc2domain.com")
        mail.Bcc.Add("bcc1@bcc1domain.com")
        mail.Bcc.Add("bcc2@bcc2domain.com")
        '-----------------------------------
 
        'set the mail content
        mail.Subject = "This is an email with attachment"
        mail.Body = "This is the body content of the email."
 
        'set the attachment
        mail.Attachments.Clear()
        Dim attachment1 As New Attachment("c:\attachment\image1.jpg")
        mail.Attachments.Add(attachment1)
        mail.Attachments.Add(New Attachment("c:\attachment\text1.txt"))
 
        'send mail
        SendMail(mail)
 
End Sub ' End MultipleRecipients

Here, "attachment1" is the instance of Attachment Class of System.Net.Mail namespace, which is a property of MailMessage to get the attachment collection used to store data attached.

One part of MIME Source for above mail is:

Listing 8 – Mime source of a mail with attachment

'--------------------------------
subject: This is an email with attachment
content-type: multipart/mixed; 
boundary=--boundary_0_967ab941-2985-4b6a-8a69-adfb17fb1951
Message-Id: <f0707041632541xxxxxxxxx>
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.5.476 [269.9.14/885]
----boundary_0_967ab941-2985-4b6a-8a69-adfb17fb1951
content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
This is the body content of the email.
----boundary_0_967ab941-2985-4b6a-8a69-adfb17fb1951
content-type: application/octet-stream; name=image1.jpg
content-transfer-encoding: base64
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/4QAWRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEB
AQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB
EBAQEBAQE... .....  ......  ....   ..  ..  .
..... ....   .........  ...  ...  .. .. ..
----boundary_0_967ab941-2985-4b6a-8a69-adfb17fb1951
content-type: application/octet-stream; name=text1.txt
content-transfer-encoding: base64
SGkgVGhpcyBmaWxlIGlzIGF0dGFjaGVkIGZpbGUuDQoNCkNhbiB1IHJlYWQgdGhpcyBmaWxl
Lg0KD.................
----boundary_0_967ab941-2985-4b6a-8a69-adfb17fb1951--
'--------------------------------

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Title: Attachment needed.   
Name: Chieko
Date: 2012-11-27 10:39:48 AM
Comment:
I was so happy I could use this piece of code to add images to emails. The image did not show up in all of the emails until I added an attachment to the mail object.
' create email attachement.
Dim attach As New Net.Mail.Attachment(imagepath)
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Title: Forwarding problem   
Name: Abhinay
Date: 2011-04-13 1:20:30 AM
Comment:
I am facing problem while forwarding the mail.I have created mail as mention in article.It sends mail perfectly but when I forward that mail if does not contain the embedded image.
Title: it didnot work   
Name: CC
Date: 2011-04-04 3:48:33 PM
Comment:
Hello

your code didnot working for me( IE8) et outlook 2007
i see the X
Title: Browser support   
Name: Sh
Date: 2011-04-02 8:29:27 AM
Comment:
Hi

Does all client browser support embedded images in email.
Does the embedded image be displayed in gmail or outlook??
Title: Email Problem   
Name: Mohit Chauhan
Date: 2010-12-14 4:36:30 AM
Comment:
actually my question is:
i want mail full capture page.when i send it then the page capture the pop up page.i am really confuse. how to capture previous page.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);
HtmlTextWriter htmlTw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
base.Render(htmlTw);


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Title: Sending HTML Mail with Embedded Image in .NET   
Name: Ramkumar
Date: 2010-11-18 10:30:37 AM
Comment:
Hi Soyuj,
I tried with the same code and replaced the image location, From and To address values. But i am getting 'X' mark in place of image. But when i replace the HTML src with the original image location, the image is displayed in the mail. Kindly help me in solving this. I am using MS Outlook
Title: hi Anowar   
Name: prasath
Date: 2010-09-06 4:44:12 AM
Comment:
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Title: Hotmail Problem   
Name: Anowar
Date: 2010-08-24 4:01:26 AM
Comment:
I have used embedded image as background image of a TD tag and its working(showing) fine with yahoo email. But in hotmail it is not showing(background image).

Can you please suggest me what to do??
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Title: Thanks!   
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Comment:
I was going crazy, not finding anything about how to embed a picture in my email. This post made my day. Thank you!
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Title: Example fail   
Name: David Pineda
Date: 2010-05-20 12:34:43 PM
Comment:
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Title: Hotmail   
Name: Graham
Date: 2009-12-11 7:30:00 AM
Comment:
Hi Pieter, could you post your entire code for image attachments for Hotmail. What about for multiple images? Would I need to create multiple image views?
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Title: Hotmail   
Name: Pieter
Date: 2009-10-07 3:34:16 PM
Comment:
Hi
Thanks for the GREAT post. After fighting a bit with the image displaying in Hotmail, I came up with this code which seems to make it work:
Attachment data = new Attachment(imageView.ContentStream, MediaTypeNames.Image.Gif);
data.ContentDisposition.Inline = true;
data.ContentId = "uniqueId";
data.TransferEncoding = TransferEncoding.Base64;
message.Attachments.Add(data);

Just use that instead of the message.AlternateViews.Add(imageView);

Hopefully this will help someone.
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Title: Error by using this codes   
Name: Nelson
Date: 2009-05-28 10:53:20 PM
Comment:
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Name: Sangam Uprety
Date: 2009-03-27 8:48:30 AM
Comment:
Hi Soyuj!
Thanks for the descriptive tutorial.
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Date: 2008-11-29 11:28:08 PM
Comment:
Look for another example in the net.
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Title: Need urgent help   
Name: Gandhi Basnet
Date: 2008-11-22 11:16:37 PM
Comment:
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please help me out

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Title: Works on Outlook Express but not for Outlook 2007   
Name: Gandhi Basnet
Date: 2008-11-20 3:58:33 AM
Comment:
The embedded image is displayed in Outlook Express but not in Outlook 2007.
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Date: 2008-11-10 2:30:00 PM
Comment:
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Title: need help urgent   
Name: Geani
Date: 2008-10-27 10:18:25 AM
Comment:
I used same code. The only difference is the location of the image to be loaded. But, Image doesn't display properly.
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Name: Rahul
Date: 2008-10-09 7:29:35 AM
Comment:
It was a nice article.
But Image doesn't display properly.
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could u help me

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Name: sunil
Date: 2008-08-20 12:25:16 AM
Comment:
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thanks
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Name: bunny
Date: 2008-08-18 10:16:20 PM
Comment:
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Name: Prince Mathew
Date: 2008-02-19 11:23:33 PM
Comment:
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Name: Mohammed. Akhtar
Date: 2007-08-29 6:18:45 AM
Comment:
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Title: Thanx To You   
Name: Sai
Date: 2007-08-10 1:28:03 AM
Comment:
Hello Sir,

I got good idea from this article but i expecting to know how can i read mails came to me in my gmail account in my asp.net application using POP3 Access.
Title: Pankaj   
Name: Pankaj Baviskar
Date: 2007-08-07 9:18:21 AM
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Title: Very good work   
Name: Jose
Date: 2007-08-07 2:36:54 AM
Comment:
Thank you Soyuj for this very good work. Each step is very well explained. Good job!
Title: Thanks!   
Name: Oscar
Date: 2007-08-06 11:53:30 AM
Comment:
Thanks a lot Soyuj! i'll try it that way
Title: Hotmail issue..   
Name: Soyuj Kumar
Date: 2007-08-06 3:41:14 AM
Comment:
Hello Oscar,

I have already checked with LinkedResource class and it is working fine for Hotmail.... try this..

Thanks.

Soyuj
Title: I am trying   
Name: Soyuj Kumar
Date: 2007-08-06 3:20:24 AM
Comment:
Hi...

Thanks for this nice questions!!! I have tried with Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail... but got failed in Hotmail to see the image.. Yahoo and Gmail supports...

Please check the message source in all the experimental cases.. hello Kevin check the Outlook's source if the image source is there then we need to do some R&D..

BTW, another possible way is to try this action using "LinkedResource" which will take the path of the image.. and then (AlternateView)htmlView.add(LinkedResource) ....

So, please try with this...

Thanks,
Soyuj
Title: Thank You!   
Name: amin behzadi
Date: 2007-08-04 3:57:15 AM
Comment:
Excelent...! Very nice and clear to understandig.
thank you!
Title: Question   
Name: Oscar
Date: 2007-08-03 11:20:02 AM
Comment:
Excelent code Soyuj!! i have a question..the example works fine if i see the mail message in gmail(i see the text and the image), but in msnHotmail(i see the text and a gray box instead of the image) in mozilla i only see the image..
What could be the problem? is there any special setup that we need to see this mail correclty??
Thanks a lot!!!
Title: Thank, another question ask   
Name: Kevin
Date: 2007-08-03 2:43:25 AM
Comment:
your code got worked in outlook express, failed in outlook.

in outlook, i just saw a red cross instead of the pic. Do you know why or have you tested it like that?

any ideas please feel free to contact me via kevins@verdant.com.au. thanks again.

Cheers,
Kevin
Title: Thanks   
Name: Soyuj Kumar
Date: 2007-08-02 8:54:49 AM
Comment:
Thanks !!! for these nice comments...
Title: Enjoyed your article   
Name: Patricia
Date: 2007-08-01 10:33:58 PM
Comment:
Your writing style makes it so clear to understand. Thank you and looking forward to more of your articles.
Title: Nice work   
Name: John
Date: 2007-07-27 3:29:23 AM
Comment:
Nice work man.. Keep it up !!!

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