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