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Paul Michaels
Paul Michaels

Reputation: 16695

Sending plain text e-mails using SendGrid

I'm trying to send a plain text e-mail from a C# function; however, the resulting mail comes through with HTML tags. I've reduced this down to the following console app:

static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
    SendGridMessage msg = new SendGridMessage()
    {
        From = new SendGrid.Helpers.Mail.EmailAddress("[email protected]"),
        Subject = "test",
        PlainTextContent = "Hello"
    };
    msg.AddTo(new SendGrid.Helpers.Mail.EmailAddress("[email protected]", "test recipient"));            

    SendGridClient client = new SendGridClient("mykey");
    Response response = await client.SendEmailAsync(msg);

    Console.WriteLine(response.StatusCode);
    Console.ReadLine();

}

It sends the e-mail fine, but doing a view source on the e-mail shows it to be HTML formatted:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head>
<body>
<p>Hello</p>

<img src="https:// ... />
</body></html>

I've tried various combinations, including setting the HtmlContent to plain text (which results in a very different e-mail, but still not plain text), and a syntax such as:

var emailContent = new Content
{
    Type = "text/plain",
    Value = emailMessage
};
message.Content.Add(emailContent);

I know that there is no intermediary reformatting the message, as I can send a plain text e-mail to myself from outlook.

I'm using SendGrid 9.9.0, but I've tried 9.8.0 in case it's something that has recently changed.

Am I missing something here, or am I expecting SendGrid to be able to do something that it isn't capable of?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 10412

Answers (1)

Lennart Stoop
Lennart Stoop

Reputation: 1689

Taken from the SendGrid online docs:

First, login to your SendGrid account, click on “Settings”, then “Mail Settings”, and drop down the Plain Content setting, and then place a check mark in the Don’t Convert Plaintext to HTML option. Be sure to save this setting.

The standard seems to be that e-mails are sent with both HTML and plain text, so a version of plain text is automatically converted to HTML as well.

Upvotes: 9

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