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DEH

Reputation: 1747

System.Net.Mail send message without recipient

I am using System.Net.Mail.MailMessage to create and send an email message. For various reasons I do not want to use the .To.Add() or the .CC.Add() or the .Bcc.Add() methods to add recipients to the email. I want to add them via the .Headers.Add() method. (This gives greater control over the recipients).

However, when I come to send the message I get an exception stating "A recipient must be specified". It obviously does not realise that I have added recipients via the Headers.

Can anyone think of a workaround for this? Could I somehow override the method that is validating the message and throwing the exception?

Thanks very much.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3257

Answers (3)

ewall
ewall

Reputation: 28110

A common way of sending out mailings like this is to put the sender's address/return address (only) in the TO: field, and everything else hidden (like the BCC:). I don't know what you mean about specifying the recipients "in the headers", but your message is going to be blocked by most spam filters if it is out-of-the-ordinary, and having no visible recipients is surely that.

Upvotes: 0

user333306
user333306

Reputation:

Don't use that class. There is a lot alternatives on the market including opensource project.

Upvotes: 0

Paul Creasey
Paul Creasey

Reputation: 28864

Why not just add a junk recipient to the bcc field?

Upvotes: 1

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