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Author
28 Nov 2006 7:08 PM
Robert Dufour
I am trying to use framework 1.1 - stuck with it. to send emails from a
windows form application. The email messages can have attachments, usually
two and they can be either text or sounds (wav files) or images (bmp, gif or
tiff)

I can send the email messages OK but the attachments are giving me grief.

Can anyone provide some code that adds attachments to web mail messages.

Thanks for any help,
Bob

Author
29 Nov 2006 4:01 AM
Cor Ligthert [MVP]
Robert,

It depends how you sent the email. If you use the default client method, you
cannot use attachment.
If you use SMTP (only on "professional and 2003 OS") than you can use SMTP
mail.

So let us know what you are doing?

Cor

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"Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
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>I am trying to use framework 1.1 - stuck with it. to send emails from a
>windows form application. The email messages can have attachments, usually
>two and they can be either text or sounds (wav files) or images (bmp, gif
>or tiff)
>
> I can send the email messages OK but the attachments are giving me grief.
>
> Can anyone provide some code that adds attachments to web mail messages.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bob
>
>
>
Author
29 Nov 2006 9:27 PM
Robert Dufour
Cor this is the snippet of code that I use so far,
Imports System.Web.Mail

Public Class clsWebMail

Public Sub SendWebMail(ByVal Mailto As String, _

ByVal MailFrom As String, _

ByVal Subject As String, _

ByVal Body As String, _

Optional ByVal MailAttachments As String = "", _

Optional ByVal MailCC As String = "", _

Optional ByVal MailBcc As String = "", _

Optional ByVal ServerName As String = "localhost", _

Optional ByVal UserLogin As String = "", _

Optional ByVal Password As String = "")

'The mail attachments string should contain semi colon delimited full
pathnames

'of the files to be attached.

Try

Dim mailMsg As New MailMessage

With mailMsg

..From = MailFrom

..To = Mailto

..Cc = MailCC

..Bcc = MailBcc

..Subject = Subject

..Body = Body

..Priority = MailPriority.High

End With

Dim AttachItem As String

If MailAttachments <> "" Then

Dim delimStr As String = ";"

Dim delimiter As Char() = delimStr.ToCharArray()

Dim split As String() = Nothing

split = MailAttachments.Split(delimiter)

For Each AttachItem In split

Dim attachment As New MailAttachment(AttachItem) 'create the attachment for
the message

mailMsg.Attachments.Add(attachment) 'add the attachment

Next AttachItem

End If

If ServerName <> "localhost" Then

mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate",
"1") 'basic authentication

mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
UserLogin) 'Login name

mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
"Password") 'set your password here

End If

SmtpMail.SmtpServer = ServerName

SmtpMail.Send(mailMsg)

Catch ex As Exception

WriteLogEntry("Application", "WebMailing", "Web mail send error " &
ex.InnerException.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error, 0, 0)

End Try

End Sub

End Class

The code works OK except when I try to use the attachments. The project
needs to work on a Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 workstation, it is not
intended for a 2003 server. I know that in 2005 the mailing has been moved
to SYSTEM.NET.MAIL but I'm stuck with using VS2003 that uses
system.web.mail.
I found some info and code samples at
http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/2.3.aspx but the attachments don't work and
I need it, badly.

Bob

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"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
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> Robert,
>
> It depends how you sent the email. If you use the default client method,
> you cannot use attachment.
> If you use SMTP (only on "professional and 2003 OS") than you can use SMTP
> mail.
>
> So let us know what you are doing?
>
> Cor
>
> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
> news:eyRYIDyEHHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I am trying to use framework 1.1 - stuck with it. to send emails from a
>>windows form application. The email messages can have attachments, usually
>>two and they can be either text or sounds (wav files) or images (bmp, gif
>>or tiff)
>>
>> I can send the email messages OK but the attachments are giving me grief.
>>
>> Can anyone provide some code that adds attachments to web mail messages.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Author
30 Nov 2006 5:09 AM
Cor Ligthert [MVP]
Robert,

The first thing I thought on was "Is Robert using HTML post, because that
preservers the charachters"
Almost nobody likes that but as you have to do that, than you have no
alternatives.

At the moment I don't have the time to check your code but this is the best
website with information about your problem. If nobody else is checking your
code and you keeps the problem, than please reply I can than see if I have
the time to check it in the weekend.

http://www.systemwebmail.net/

Cor
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"Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
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> Cor this is the snippet of code that I use so far,
> Imports System.Web.Mail
>
> Public Class clsWebMail
>
> Public Sub SendWebMail(ByVal Mailto As String, _
>
> ByVal MailFrom As String, _
>
> ByVal Subject As String, _
>
> ByVal Body As String, _
>
> Optional ByVal MailAttachments As String = "", _
>
> Optional ByVal MailCC As String = "", _
>
> Optional ByVal MailBcc As String = "", _
>
> Optional ByVal ServerName As String = "localhost", _
>
> Optional ByVal UserLogin As String = "", _
>
> Optional ByVal Password As String = "")
>
> 'The mail attachments string should contain semi colon delimited full
> pathnames
>
> 'of the files to be attached.
>
> Try
>
> Dim mailMsg As New MailMessage
>
> With mailMsg
>
> .From = MailFrom
>
> .To = Mailto
>
> .Cc = MailCC
>
> .Bcc = MailBcc
>
> .Subject = Subject
>
> .Body = Body
>
> .Priority = MailPriority.High
>
> End With
>
> Dim AttachItem As String
>
> If MailAttachments <> "" Then
>
> Dim delimStr As String = ";"
>
> Dim delimiter As Char() = delimStr.ToCharArray()
>
> Dim split As String() = Nothing
>
> split = MailAttachments.Split(delimiter)
>
> For Each AttachItem In split
>
> Dim attachment As New MailAttachment(AttachItem) 'create the attachment
> for the message
>
> mailMsg.Attachments.Add(attachment) 'add the attachment
>
> Next AttachItem
>
> End If
>
> If ServerName <> "localhost" Then
>
> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate",
> "1") 'basic authentication
>
> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
> UserLogin) 'Login name
>
> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
> "Password") 'set your password here
>
> End If
>
> SmtpMail.SmtpServer = ServerName
>
> SmtpMail.Send(mailMsg)
>
> Catch ex As Exception
>
> WriteLogEntry("Application", "WebMailing", "Web mail send error " &
> ex.InnerException.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error, 0, 0)
>
> End Try
>
> End Sub
>
> End Class
>
> The code works OK except when I try to use the attachments. The project
> needs to work on a Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 workstation, it is not
> intended for a 2003 server. I know that in 2005 the mailing has been moved
> to SYSTEM.NET.MAIL but I'm stuck with using VS2003 that uses
> system.web.mail.
> I found some info and code samples at
> http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/2.3.aspx but the attachments don't work
> and I need it, badly.
>
> Bob
>
> "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
> news:%236HnFr2EHHA.4212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Robert,
>>
>> It depends how you sent the email. If you use the default client method,
>> you cannot use attachment.
>> If you use SMTP (only on "professional and 2003 OS") than you can use
>> SMTP mail.
>>
>> So let us know what you are doing?
>>
>> Cor
>>
>> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:eyRYIDyEHHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>I am trying to use framework 1.1 - stuck with it. to send emails from a
>>>windows form application. The email messages can have attachments,
>>>usually two and they can be either text or sounds (wav files) or images
>>>(bmp, gif or tiff)
>>>
>>> I can send the email messages OK but the attachments are giving me
>>> grief.
>>>
>>> Can anyone provide some code that adds attachments to web mail messages.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
Author
1 Dec 2006 6:11 PM
Robert Dufour
Cor
I looked at that site and that's where I picked up on how to do it. I did
some more testing with my code and I found that the attachments work OK when
I use localhost (i.e the built-in SMTP server that gets installed with IIS).
But I find that if I try to use an outside mail server like
mail.mycompany.com which is outside my LAN and requires a logon user name
and password, then I can't send mail messages to which I try to attach files
using my code, however if I don't try to use attachments the mail message
gets sent OK. It seems to mean that somehow one needs to do some other code
when trying to make attachments to a remote server. I could not find any
documentation or sample code on that specific problem.

Regards,
Bob
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"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
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> Robert,
>
> The first thing I thought on was "Is Robert using HTML post, because that
> preservers the charachters"
> Almost nobody likes that but as you have to do that, than you have no
> alternatives.
>
> At the moment I don't have the time to check your code but this is the
> best website with information about your problem. If nobody else is
> checking your code and you keeps the problem, than please reply I can than
> see if I have the time to check it in the weekend.
>
> http://www.systemwebmail.net/
>
> Cor
> .
>
>
>
>
> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
> news:ugjFT1$EHHA.3932@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Cor this is the snippet of code that I use so far,
>> Imports System.Web.Mail
>>
>> Public Class clsWebMail
>>
>> Public Sub SendWebMail(ByVal Mailto As String, _
>>
>> ByVal MailFrom As String, _
>>
>> ByVal Subject As String, _
>>
>> ByVal Body As String, _
>>
>> Optional ByVal MailAttachments As String = "", _
>>
>> Optional ByVal MailCC As String = "", _
>>
>> Optional ByVal MailBcc As String = "", _
>>
>> Optional ByVal ServerName As String = "localhost", _
>>
>> Optional ByVal UserLogin As String = "", _
>>
>> Optional ByVal Password As String = "")
>>
>> 'The mail attachments string should contain semi colon delimited full
>> pathnames
>>
>> 'of the files to be attached.
>>
>> Try
>>
>> Dim mailMsg As New MailMessage
>>
>> With mailMsg
>>
>> .From = MailFrom
>>
>> .To = Mailto
>>
>> .Cc = MailCC
>>
>> .Bcc = MailBcc
>>
>> .Subject = Subject
>>
>> .Body = Body
>>
>> .Priority = MailPriority.High
>>
>> End With
>>
>> Dim AttachItem As String
>>
>> If MailAttachments <> "" Then
>>
>> Dim delimStr As String = ";"
>>
>> Dim delimiter As Char() = delimStr.ToCharArray()
>>
>> Dim split As String() = Nothing
>>
>> split = MailAttachments.Split(delimiter)
>>
>> For Each AttachItem In split
>>
>> Dim attachment As New MailAttachment(AttachItem) 'create the attachment
>> for the message
>>
>> mailMsg.Attachments.Add(attachment) 'add the attachment
>>
>> Next AttachItem
>>
>> End If
>>
>> If ServerName <> "localhost" Then
>>
>> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate",
>> "1") 'basic authentication
>>
>> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
>> UserLogin) 'Login name
>>
>> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
>> "Password") 'set your password here
>>
>> End If
>>
>> SmtpMail.SmtpServer = ServerName
>>
>> SmtpMail.Send(mailMsg)
>>
>> Catch ex As Exception
>>
>> WriteLogEntry("Application", "WebMailing", "Web mail send error " &
>> ex.InnerException.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error, 0, 0)
>>
>> End Try
>>
>> End Sub
>>
>> End Class
>>
>> The code works OK except when I try to use the attachments. The project
>> needs to work on a Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 workstation, it is not
>> intended for a 2003 server. I know that in 2005 the mailing has been
>> moved to SYSTEM.NET.MAIL but I'm stuck with using VS2003 that uses
>> system.web.mail.
>> I found some info and code samples at
>> http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/2.3.aspx but the attachments don't work
>> and I need it, badly.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
>> news:%236HnFr2EHHA.4212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> It depends how you sent the email. If you use the default client method,
>>> you cannot use attachment.
>>> If you use SMTP (only on "professional and 2003 OS") than you can use
>>> SMTP mail.
>>>
>>> So let us know what you are doing?
>>>
>>> Cor
>>>
>>> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
>>> news:eyRYIDyEHHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>>I am trying to use framework 1.1 - stuck with it. to send emails from a
>>>>windows form application. The email messages can have attachments,
>>>>usually two and they can be either text or sounds (wav files) or images
>>>>(bmp, gif or tiff)
>>>>
>>>> I can send the email messages OK but the attachments are giving me
>>>> grief.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone provide some code that adds attachments to web mail
>>>> messages.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
Author
2 Dec 2006 3:53 AM
Cor Ligthert [MVP]
Bob,

That sounds very strange to me and looks just like a firewall or
virusscanner problem, as there are often in this situations.

Cor

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> Cor
> I looked at that site and that's where I picked up on how to do it. I did
> some more testing with my code and I found that the attachments work OK
> when I use localhost (i.e the built-in SMTP server that gets installed
> with IIS). But I find that if I try to use an outside mail server like
> mail.mycompany.com which is outside my LAN and requires a logon user name
> and password, then I can't send mail messages to which I try to attach
> files using my code, however if I don't try to use attachments the mail
> message gets sent OK. It seems to mean that somehow one needs to do some
> other code when trying to make attachments to a remote server. I could not
> find any documentation or sample code on that specific problem.
>
> Regards,
> Bob
> "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
> news:OVJjq1DFHHA.3540@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Robert,
>>
>> The first thing I thought on was "Is Robert using HTML post, because that
>> preservers the charachters"
>> Almost nobody likes that but as you have to do that, than you have no
>> alternatives.
>>
>> At the moment I don't have the time to check your code but this is the
>> best website with information about your problem. If nobody else is
>> checking your code and you keeps the problem, than please reply I can
>> than see if I have the time to check it in the weekend.
>>
>> http://www.systemwebmail.net/
>>
>> Cor
>> .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:ugjFT1$EHHA.3932@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Cor this is the snippet of code that I use so far,
>>> Imports System.Web.Mail
>>>
>>> Public Class clsWebMail
>>>
>>> Public Sub SendWebMail(ByVal Mailto As String, _
>>>
>>> ByVal MailFrom As String, _
>>>
>>> ByVal Subject As String, _
>>>
>>> ByVal Body As String, _
>>>
>>> Optional ByVal MailAttachments As String = "", _
>>>
>>> Optional ByVal MailCC As String = "", _
>>>
>>> Optional ByVal MailBcc As String = "", _
>>>
>>> Optional ByVal ServerName As String = "localhost", _
>>>
>>> Optional ByVal UserLogin As String = "", _
>>>
>>> Optional ByVal Password As String = "")
>>>
>>> 'The mail attachments string should contain semi colon delimited full
>>> pathnames
>>>
>>> 'of the files to be attached.
>>>
>>> Try
>>>
>>> Dim mailMsg As New MailMessage
>>>
>>> With mailMsg
>>>
>>> .From = MailFrom
>>>
>>> .To = Mailto
>>>
>>> .Cc = MailCC
>>>
>>> .Bcc = MailBcc
>>>
>>> .Subject = Subject
>>>
>>> .Body = Body
>>>
>>> .Priority = MailPriority.High
>>>
>>> End With
>>>
>>> Dim AttachItem As String
>>>
>>> If MailAttachments <> "" Then
>>>
>>> Dim delimStr As String = ";"
>>>
>>> Dim delimiter As Char() = delimStr.ToCharArray()
>>>
>>> Dim split As String() = Nothing
>>>
>>> split = MailAttachments.Split(delimiter)
>>>
>>> For Each AttachItem In split
>>>
>>> Dim attachment As New MailAttachment(AttachItem) 'create the attachment
>>> for the message
>>>
>>> mailMsg.Attachments.Add(attachment) 'add the attachment
>>>
>>> Next AttachItem
>>>
>>> End If
>>>
>>> If ServerName <> "localhost" Then
>>>
>>> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate",
>>> "1") 'basic authentication
>>>
>>> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername",
>>> UserLogin) 'Login name
>>>
>>> mailMsg.Fields.Add("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword",
>>> "Password") 'set your password here
>>>
>>> End If
>>>
>>> SmtpMail.SmtpServer = ServerName
>>>
>>> SmtpMail.Send(mailMsg)
>>>
>>> Catch ex As Exception
>>>
>>> WriteLogEntry("Application", "WebMailing", "Web mail send error " &
>>> ex.InnerException.Message, EventLogEntryType.Error, 0, 0)
>>>
>>> End Try
>>>
>>> End Sub
>>>
>>> End Class
>>>
>>> The code works OK except when I try to use the attachments. The project
>>> needs to work on a Windows XP Pro or Windows 2000 workstation, it is not
>>> intended for a 2003 server. I know that in 2005 the mailing has been
>>> moved to SYSTEM.NET.MAIL but I'm stuck with using VS2003 that uses
>>> system.web.mail.
>>> I found some info and code samples at
>>> http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/2.3.aspx but the attachments don't work
>>> and I need it, badly.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
>>> news:%236HnFr2EHHA.4212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> Robert,
>>>>
>>>> It depends how you sent the email. If you use the default client
>>>> method, you cannot use attachment.
>>>> If you use SMTP (only on "professional and 2003 OS") than you can use
>>>> SMTP mail.
>>>>
>>>> So let us know what you are doing?
>>>>
>>>> Cor
>>>>
>>>> "Robert Dufour" <bduf***@sgiims.com> schreef in bericht
>>>> news:eyRYIDyEHHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>>>I am trying to use framework 1.1 - stuck with it. to send emails from a
>>>>>windows form application. The email messages can have attachments,
>>>>>usually two and they can be either text or sounds (wav files) or images
>>>>>(bmp, gif or tiff)
>>>>>
>>>>> I can send the email messages OK but the attachments are giving me
>>>>> grief.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone provide some code that adds attachments to web mail
>>>>> messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>