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Reputation: 567

Embeding Images in an Email Using Outlook Interop

I have a simple little email app that allows a user to pick certain options that generate a string and sends out an email. I wanted to see if its possible to add images to the email i.e. a header logo or signature, etc. The research I've been looking at is very HTML heavy and I know very little HTML. Can anyone help? My code is as follows...

using System;
using Outlook = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook;
using System.Configuration;

namespace My_EmailSender
{
    public class EmailSender:Notification
    {
        string emailRecipient = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["emailRecipient"];

        public void SendMail(string message)
        {
            try
            {
                var oApp = new Outlook.Application();
                var oMsg = (Outlook.MailItem)oApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem);
                var oRecip = (Outlook.Recipient)oMsg.Recipients.Add(emailRecipient);
                oRecip.Resolve();
                oMsg.Subject = "Email Notification";
                oMsg.Body = message;

                // Display the message before sending could save() also but no need
                oMsg.Send();
                oMsg.Display(true);
                oRecip = null;
                oMsg = null;
                oApp = null;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Problem with email execution. Exception caught: ", e);
            }

            return;
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4828

Answers (2)

Jacintha
Jacintha

Reputation: 41

Here is the sample code for sending the image thru outlook in c#

        Configuration config = System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(HttpContext.Request.ApplicationPath);
        System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup settings = (System.Net.Configuration.MailSettingsSectionGroup)config.GetSectionGroup("system.net/mailSettings");
        System.Net.Configuration.SmtpSection smtp = settings.Smtp;
        System.Net.Configuration.SmtpNetworkElement network = smtp.Network;
        Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application();
        MailItem mailItem = (MailItem)outlookApp.CreateItem(OlItemType.olMailItem);
        mailItem.To = network.TargetName;


        Attachment attachment = mailItem.Attachments.Add(
        "C://test.bmp"
        , OlAttachmentType.olEmbeddeditem
        , null
        , "test image"
        );
        string imageCid = "test.bmp@123";

        attachment.PropertyAccessor.SetProperty(
            "http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3712001E"
            , imageCid
            );
        mailItem.BodyFormat = OlBodyFormat.olFormatRichText;
        mailItem.HTMLBody = String.Format(
              "<body><img src=\"cid:{0}\"></body>"
             , imageCid
             );

        mailItem.Importance = OlImportance.olImportanceNormal;
        mailItem.Display(false);

Upvotes: 2

PMC
PMC

Reputation: 4756

I would always use System.Net.Mail to send emails but maybe this is a requirement of yours?

Read up on system.net.mail here.

Upvotes: 0

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