How to send an email in Microsoft Visual Basic .Net

Sending Mail Using Dot net

The System.Web.Mail namespace provides the classes for sending Email in Dot net.

MailMessage is the class primarily used to Manage the mail message contents. SmtpMail is the class used to do the sending. The following block of code can send a test e-mail.

Note: The account context of the code must have the right to send mail on the SMTP server.

Dim myMail As System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail
Dim Mailmsg As New System.Web.Mail.MailMessage
myMail .SmtpServer = "mail.YourMail.com"
Mailmsg.To = "Target@Email.com"
Mailmsg.From = "\Your Name\ <You@yourMail.com>"
Mailmsg.BodyFormat = System.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Html
Mailmsg.Subject = "A test email"
Mailmsg.Body = "This is only a test"
myMail.Send(Mailmsg)

The Properties of the MailMessage class:

Attachment - Specifies the list of the attachments that are transmitted with the message

Bcc - A list of semicolon delimited email addresses that receive a Blind Carbon Copy of the message

Body - Contains the message text that has to be sent.

BodyEncoding - The encoding type of the email message.

BodyFormat - Defines the content type of the body of the message

Cc - A list of semicolon delimited email addresses that receive a Carbon Copy of the message

From - The email address of the sender.

Header - Specifies the custom headers which are transmitted with the Message

Priority - The priority of the email message

Subject - Subject Line of the email message.

To - email address of the recipient.

Other helpful classes:

MailAttachments - Manage the mail attachment.

SmtpMail - Send email to the mail server.

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