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scottdavidwalker
scottdavidwalker

Reputation: 1511

Html not getting correctly inserted into email when using the default asp.net mvc template

Using the default mvc code for confirming email addresses on registration but when the email gets sent it isn't showing the html. enter image description here Template MVC code:

string code = await UserManager.GenerateEmailConfirmationTokenAsync(user.Id);
                var callbackUrl = Url.Action("ConfirmEmail", "Account", new { userId = user.Id, code = code }, protocol: Request.Url.Scheme);
                await UserManager.SendEmailAsync(user.Id, "Confirm your account", "Please confirm your account by clicking <a href=\"" +
                    callbackUrl + "\">here</a>");

Send Email Async:

 public Task SendAsync(IdentityMessage message)
    {

        // Plug in your email service here to send an email.
        SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
        return client.SendMailAsync("email here",
                                    message.Destination,
                                    message.Subject,
                                    message.Body);
        return Task.FromResult(0);
    }

When looking through some of the other questions on SO, I changed my send code slightly so that I could set the body to allow html but I still have the same issue

  public Task SendAsync(IdentityMessage message)
    {
        MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
        msg.IsBodyHtml = true;
        msg.Body = message.Body;
        // Plug in your email service here to send an email.
        SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
        return client.SendMailAsync("email here",
                                    message.Destination,
                                    message.Subject,
                                    msg.Body);
        return Task.FromResult(0);
    }

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

TIA

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2185

Answers (1)

Tetsuya Yamamoto
Tetsuya Yamamoto

Reputation: 24957

The problem more likely depends on which email service/API content you've currently using. In case SendEmailAsync method still sending confirmation email as plain text instead of HTML, you can embed the confirmation URL together with body message and let user's mail client automatically convert it to a link like this:

await UserManager.SendEmailAsync(user.Id, "Confirm your account", "Please confirm your account by clicking here: " + callbackUrl);

Another way to send email body as HTML is setting IsBodyHtml property to true inside SendAsync method as shown below:

public class EmailService : IIdentityMessageService 
{
    // other stuff

    public async Task SendAsync(IdentityMessage message)
    {
        var msg = new MailMessage();
        msg.Subject = message.Subject;
        msg.Body = message.Body;
        msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

        msg.To.Add(message.Destination);

        // Plug in your email service here to send an email.
        using (var client = new SmtpClient())
        {
            await client.SendMailAsync(msg);
        }

        // other stuff
    }

    // other stuff
}

NB: Ensure the IdentityConfig.cs file containing SendAsync method is available in App_Start directory of your project (see this full example).

Related issues:

ASP.NET Identity Confirmation Email Is Plain Text Instead of HTML

Email Confirmation with MVC 5 and Asp.net Identity

Upvotes: 6

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