reading and sending a file in email ?

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Jason - 21 May 2008 16:10 GMT

I would like to build a windows app or service that would read a .txt
file and than put the contents of that file in an email and send off
the email. WOuld that be very difficult?...how could this be done?

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kimiraikkonen - 21 May 2008 16:44 GMT

> I would like to build a windows app or service that would read a .txt
> file and than put the contents of that file in an email and send off
> the email. WOuld that be very difficult?...how could this be done?

Hi,
Reading of text file can be done using WebClient's downloadstring
method if the file resides on remote host. If file is local, you can
use StreamReader.

You can send mail with attachments using System.Net.SmtpClient class.

A sample code would be:

' Instantiate SmtpClient Class
Dim emailClient As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com")

' Instantiate MailMessage Class
Dim message As New MailMessage("from_here", "to_here", "subject_here",
"body_here")
message.Attachments.Add(New Attachment("attachment_path_here")

' Credentials here <optional>
' Set credentials using System.Net.NetworkCredential...
' .......

' Send mail
emailClient.Send(message)

Hope this helps,

Onur Güzel

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Jason - 21 May 2008 17:21 GMT

OK...but I dont want to load the file as an attachment.

I want to read, for example \\server\docs\myfile.txt
and than display the contents of file.txt in an email body

> > I would like to build a windows app or service that would read a .txt
> > file and than put the contents of that file in an email and send off
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>
> Onur Güzel

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kimiraikkonen - 21 May 2008 17:34 GMT

> OK...but I dont want to load the file as an attachment.
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Then you'll send the mail within your application, right?

So, place a richtextbox or textbox to download the content from remote
text file;

Dim myclient As New System.Net.WebClient
textbox1.text = myclient.DownloadString("\\server\docs\myfile.txt")

Now you can set textbox1 as body of your outgoing mail in
MailMessage's constructors:
Dim message As New MailMessage("from", "to", "subject",
textbox1.text)

(see previous post for the rest)

Thanks,

Onur Güzel

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Mayur H Chauhan - 21 May 2008 18:03 GMT

in that case read the content from the txt file using StreamReader and
populate message body.

Also the name space is System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient
Mayur

OK...but I dont want to load the file as an attachment.

I want to read, for example \\server\docs\myfile.txt
and than display the contents of file.txt in an email body

On May 21, 11:44 am, kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkone...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 21, 6:10 pm, Jason <paul...@excite.com> wrote:
>
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> Onur Güzel

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kimiraikkonen - 21 May 2008 18:12 GMT

> in that case read the content from the txt file using StreamReader and
> populate message body.
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Yes, my typo, correct one is System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient, thanks for
correcting.

Thanks,

Onur

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rowe_newsgroups - 21 May 2008 17:55 GMT

If the file is not at a remote location, it would be much easier to
just read the file with a FileStream. You should be able to find
plenty of examples on doing that from the msdn article on FileStream.

For sending it in an email, the place you want to go is

www.systemnetmail.com

It will walk you through the steps necessary for sending emails.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe [MVP]

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