Send HTML Email in Managed C++/CLI¶

In previous section, I introduced how to send email without specified SMTP server. In this section, I will introduce how to compose and send HTML email in Managed C++.

Sections:

Introduction
[Managed C++/CLI Example - Send HTML email]
Import Html to email directly

Introduction¶

If you want to specify the font, color or insert pictures in your email, you should use Html email format instead of Plain text email format.

Note

Remarks: All of samples in this section are based on first section: A simple Managed C++/CLI project. To compile and run the following example codes successfully, please click here to learn how to create the test project and add reference of EASendMail to your project.

[Managed C++/CLI Example - Send HTML email]¶

The following example codes demonstrate how to send email in HTML body format.

Note

To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.

#include "stdafx.h"

using namespace System;
using namespace EASendMail;

int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
    try
    {
        SmtpMail ^oMail = gcnew SmtpMail("TryIt");
        // Set sender email address, please change it to yours
        oMail->From = "test@emailarchitect.net";
        // Set recipient email address, please change it to yours
        oMail->To = gcnew AddressCollection("support@emailarchitect.net");

        // Set email subject
        oMail->Subject = "test HTML email from Managed C++ project";
        // Set HTML email body
        oMail->HtmlBody = "<font size=5>This is</font> <font color=red><b>a test</b></font>";

        // Your SMTP server address
        SmtpServer ^oServer = gcnew SmtpServer("smtp.emailarchitect.net");

        // User and password for ESMTP authentication.
        oServer->User = "test@emailarchitect.net";
        oServer->Password = "testpassword";

        // Most mordern SMTP servers require SSL/TLS connection now.
        // ConnectTryTLS means if server supports SSL/TLS, SSL/TLS will be used automatically.
        oServer->ConnectType = SmtpConnectType::ConnectTryTLS;

        // If your SMTP server uses 587 port
        // oServer->Port = 587;

        // If your SMTP server requires SSL/TLS connection on 25/587/465 port
        // oServer->Port = 25; // 25 or 587 or 465
        // oServer->ConnectType = SmtpConnectType::ConnectSSLAuto;

        Console::WriteLine("start to send HTML email ...");

        SmtpClient ^oSmtp = gcnew SmtpClient();
        oSmtp->SendMail(oServer, oMail);

        Console::WriteLine("email was sent successfully!");
    }
    catch (Exception ^ep)
    {
        Console::WriteLine("failed to send email with the following error:");
        Console::WriteLine(ep->Message);
    }

    return 0;
}

After you received the email by your email client, the body text is like this:

Import Html to email directly¶

Of course, you don’t have to write the HTML source body text in your application manually. You can build a html file with HTML tools and use ImportHtmlBody method to import the html file directly.

You can also refer to the htmlmail.* samples in EASendMail Installer. Those samples demonstrate how to build a HTML email editor and send HTML email with attachment or embedded images/pictures.

Next Section

At next section I will introduce how to attach file attachment to email message.

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Send HTML Email in Managed C++/CLI¶

Introduction¶

[Managed C++/CLI Example - Send HTML email]¶

Import Html to email directly¶

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