Sending email with html body true having image using wcf service

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I am working on an application in MVC 4.0 dot net.When user first time visit the application a mail is sent to the user.For sending the mail i am using the WCF mail service implemented in our company.

I have created a .txt file having the HTML for mail format

this is the code I am using for sending the mail

public void SendWelcomeMail(string name, string email, string filePath)
        {
            try
            {
                string subject = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["WelcomeMailSub"];
                string supportMail = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["supportMail"];

                using (StreamReader reader = File.OpenText(filePath))
                {
                    string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
                    text = string.Format(text, name);

                    Mail mails = new Mail { MailTo = "suresh.negi89@gmail.com", Msg = text, Subject = subject, IsBodyHtml = true };

                    MailSenderServiceClient oClient = new MailSenderServiceClient();



                    oClient.SendMail(mails);
                }


            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                throw new Exception(ex.Message);
            }
        }

This is the file having the HTML format:

  
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The image file logo.png is in Content folder.

When mail is sent no image is displayed.I want to know where I am doing mistake.

lc. · Accepted Answer

Where do you expect ~/Content/logo.png to point to on the recipient's machine?

99% of the time it will point nowhere, and the other 1% won't be the file you wanted anyway.

Three solutions:

Host your image on a public server and reference it with the full absolute URL (it's probably already there?). This is basically the de facto standard now.
If this location changes, you can of course use a placeholder and resolve the URL at runtime, before sending the email.
Attach the image to the email. You can then reference it inline with cid:.
Use a data URI and inline the data:
You can use the data: URI Kitchen to create one like this, or just use base64 as per the spec.

Sending email with html body true having image using wcf service

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