Send Email with Attachment in VB.NET

In previous section, I introduced how to send HTML email in VB.NET. In this section, I will introduce how to send email with attachment in VB.NET.

Introduction

To send an email with file attachment, we need to use AddAttachment method. This method can attach a file to the email message from local disk or a remote URL.

Note

Remarks: All of samples in this section are based on first section: Send email in a simple VB.NET 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.

[VB.NET - Send Email with Attachment - Example]

The following example codes demonstrate how to send email with attachment in VB.NET.

Note

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

Imports EASendMail 'Add EASendMail namespace

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Try
            Dim oMail As New 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 = "support@emailarchitect.net"

            ' Set email subject
            oMail.Subject = "test HTML email with attachment"
            ' Set HTML body
            oMail.HtmlBody = "<font size=5>This is</font> <font color=red><b>a test</b></font>"

            ' Add attachment from local disk
            oMail.AddAttachment("d:\test.pdf")

            ' Add attachment from remote website
            oMail.AddAttachment("http://www.emailarchitect.net/webapp/img/logo.jpg")

            ' Your SMTP server address
            Dim oServer As New 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 email with attachment ...")

            Dim oSmtp As New SmtpClient()
            oSmtp.SendMail(oServer, oMail)

            Console.WriteLine("email was sent successfully!")
        Catch ep As Exception
            Console.WriteLine("failed to send email with the following error:")
            Console.WriteLine(ep.Message)
        End Try

    End Sub

End Module

Next Section

At next section I will introduce how to add embedded images/pictures to email message.

Appendix

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