Sending RichTextFormat as Body of an Email

[kpandian]

Hi Everyone,


I am using System.Web.Mail [C#,Windows Form] to send emails. I am
taking the rtf of a rich text box to populate the string for the body
of the email.


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// Converting the Rtf of richtextboxcontrol to byte array and then to a

stream
Byte[] byt = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(richTextBox1.Rtf);
Stream output = new MemoryStream(byt);


// reading the stream and getting the values into a string (to be used
as body for my string)
StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(output,
System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
string theString = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
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MailMessage objMail = new MailMessage();
objMail.From = "XX";
objMail.To= "YY";
objMail.Cc= "ZZ";
objMail.Priority = System.Web.Mail.MailPriority.High;
objMail.Subject="Email Template";
objMail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.HTML;
objMail.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;


//using the string I got earlier
objMail.Body = theString;


SmtpMail.SmtpServer ="XXXX"; //Give ur mail servers IP address here
SmtpMail.Send(objMail);


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All my clients have Outlook 2003. They get the string as


{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharse­t0

Arial;}{\f1\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New
Roman;}{\f2\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Century
Gothic;}{\f3\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f4\fnil\fcharset2 Symbol;}}
{\colortbl
;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1


I did a lot of search but could not find the slution yet. Does anyone
had any problems like this before. Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Karthik Pandian

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

AFAIK, System.Web.Mail doesn't support rich-text format. You might want to ask in a C# group, though, since you're not using Outlook objects to create the message.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Hi Everyone,


I am using System.Web.Mail [C#,Windows Form] to send emails. I am
taking the rtf of a rich text box to populate the string for the body
of the email.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------­----------------------------------------

// Converting the Rtf of richtextboxcontrol to byte array and then to a

stream
Byte[] byt = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(richTextBox1.Rtf);
Stream output = new MemoryStream(byt);


// reading the stream and getting the values into a string (to be used
as body for my string)
StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(output,
System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
string theString = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
---------------------------------------------------------------------------­----------------------------------------



MailMessage objMail = new MailMessage();
objMail.From = "XX";
objMail.To= "YY";
objMail.Cc= "ZZ";
objMail.Priority = System.Web.Mail.MailPriority.High;
objMail.Subject="Email Template";
objMail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.HTML;
objMail.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;


//using the string I got earlier
objMail.Body = theString;


SmtpMail.SmtpServer ="XXXX"; //Give ur mail servers IP address here
SmtpMail.Send(objMail);


---------------------------------------------------------------------------­---------------------------------------



All my clients have Outlook 2003. They get the string as


{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharse­t0

Arial;}{\f1\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New
Roman;}{\f2\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Century
Gothic;}{\f3\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f4\fnil\fcharset2 Symbol;}}
{\colortbl
;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue255;}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\cf1


I did a lot of search but could not find the slution yet. Does anyone
had any problems like this before. Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks,
Karthik Pandian

 

[PK]

Hi Sue,

I did manage to send an email with rich text format using Outlook com
objects but there is only one problem now, it says "program is trying
to automatically send e mail on your behalf" and it waits for an Yes
or No! Somehow I need to stop it from doing that and make it automated.
It would be great if you could share anything abt that.

Thanks,
PK

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/sec.htm for your options with regard to the "object model guard" security in Outlook 2000 SP2 and later versions.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers