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Some time ago, I had written an ASP.NET website showing some reports generated from a database. The reports contained tables, as well as dynamically generated graphs. To get a larger number of people to read the reports, it seemed like a good idea to send them as a weekly email newsletter. To be able to re-read the newsletter in a later stage, it was necessary to include the images, since they are changing over time. Embedding the images makes it also possible to send the mail to people that do not have access to the website.

This article shows a way to retrieve images from a web server and embed them into your email message.

Usage

This is how you can send a web page with the mailer class provided in this article:

The main methods of the class

Sending the mail message

SendMailMessage is the main method in the class. It retrieves the contents of the web page to be sent. Next, it retrieves the images to embed. These parts are inserted into a mail message which is sent in the end.

Filling the LinkedResource

This code snippet from ExtractLinkedResources shows how the images are embedded:

Getting a web page

Glueing everything together

To make everything work together, there are a few things that need to be tackled. Since the images may be in some virtual directory on the web server, different from the page itself, their relative paths need to be changed. The program follows these steps to get everything together:

Final remarks

This article can do two things for you. It can get you started when you want to send web pages as an email message, and the sample code may help you when you are struggling on how to embed images into a mail message. I hope you find it useful!

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Background-image cannot be displayed when I use css to control the url of background-image

shuangking777

19:42 18 Feb '09

Thanks for your good solution. I have a problem. When I use css to control the url of background-image, the background-images didn't diaplay. I checked the modifedhtml, all the urls of the background-image were replaced correctly. And I can get these background-images in Attachment, but not in the email body. Do you have any idea on this? Thans a lot!
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Localize mail

sayyid.senux

22:09 13 Feb '09

Thanks for your great work but ineed your help because when i try to send Arabic page the letters appears as ??????
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Re: Localize mail

tracky

2:41 1 May '09

Fix: byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(modifiedbody);
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Re: Localize mail

tracky

3:02 1 May '09

// Write the html to a memory stream
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
//byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(modifiedbody);
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes(modifiedbody);

// Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format.
//StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.Default);

Thanks

herotayson

1:27 22 Aug '08

Thanks Your code, It help me a lot.
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Cool Good Work

jignesh_login

22:59 3 Jul '08

thanks a lot man.
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Modify version. Support SMTP Authentication

Cool Dirty Boy

22:14 27 Oct '07

Here is the modify version

How to use


// How to use ... Original Code URL : http://www.codeproject.com/cs/internet/Mail_Webpage_with_images.asp
//// The contents that will be sent
Uri uri = new Uri("http://about.com/");

//// Configuration of the email message
Fmd.Mail.WebpageMailer mailer = new Fmd.Mail.WebpageMailer();
mailer.SmtpServerName = "mail.somesmptserver.com";
mailer.Delay = 0;
mailer.MailMessage.From = new MailAddress("noreply@somedomain.com");
mailer.MailMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("recipient@somedomain.com"));
mailer.MailMessage.Subject = "Automatic Mail Message " + DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString()
mailer.MailMessage.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;
mailer.SmtpServerPassword = "somesmtppassword";
mailer.SmtpServerUserName = "somesmtpusername";

// Sending the webpage
mailer.SendMailMessage(uri);

the modified code


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace Framework.Web
{
public class WebpageMailer
{
MailMessage _mailMessage = new MailMessage();
public MailMessage MailMessage
{
get
{
return _mailMessage;
}
}

string _smptServerName;
public string SmtpServerName
{
get { return _smptServerName; }
set { _smptServerName = value; }
}

string _smptServerUserName;
public string SmtpServerUserName
{
get { return _smptServerUserName; }
set { _smptServerUserName = value; }
}


string _smptServerPassword;
public string SmtpServerPassword
{
get { return _smptServerPassword; }
set { _smptServerPassword = value; }
}




int _delay;
///
/// The delay can be used to relieve stress from a webserver
/// It is the number of milliseconds that the application waits before retrieving the next image
///
public int Delay
{
get { return _delay; }
set { _delay = value; }
}

///
/// Sends the contents of the uri as a mailmessage
/// The mail message should be configured first with recipient atc...
///
///
public void SendMailMessage(Uri uri)
{
// Retrieve the contents
string htmlbody = GetBody(uri);

// See what images there are to embed
string modifiedbody;
List<LinkedResource> foundResources;
ExtractLinkedResources(uri, htmlbody, out modifiedbody, out foundResources);

// Write the html to a memory stream
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(modifiedbody);
stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
stream.Position = 0;

// Configure the mail so it contains the html page
_mailMessage.Body = "This is a html mail - use an email client that can read it";
AlternateView altView = new AlternateView(stream, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);

// Embed the images into the mail
foreach (LinkedResource linkedResource in foundResources)
{
altView.LinkedResources.Add(linkedResource);
}
_mailMessage.AlternateViews.Add(altView);

// Send the mail
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(_smptServerName);

if (((_smptServerUserName != null) && (_smptServerPassword != null)) && ((_smptServerUserName.Length > 0) && (_smptServerPassword.Length > 0)))
{
NetworkCredential nc = new NetworkCredential(_smptServerUserName, _smptServerPassword);
client.Credentials = nc;
}

client.Send(_mailMessage);
}

///
/// Gets the body of the mail message
///
///
///
public static string GetBody(Uri uri)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

// Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request
request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4;
request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4;
// Set credentials to use for this request.
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

// Get the stream associated with the response.
Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();

// Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format.
StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);

string body = readStream.ReadToEnd();
readStream.Close();

response.Close();
return body;
}

///
/// Retrieves an image to embed
///
///
///
///
Stream GetImageStream(Uri uri, out string contentType)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(_delay);

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

// Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request
request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4;
request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4;
// Set credentials to use for this request.
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

// Get the stream associated with the response.
Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();

BinaryReader binaryReader = new BinaryReader(receiveStream);
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
try
{
while (true)
{
byte b = binaryReader.ReadByte(); // Not so efficient but it works...
memoryStream.WriteByte(b);
}
}
catch (EndOfStreamException)
{
memoryStream.Position = 0;
}

contentType = response.ContentType;
response.Close();
return memoryStream;
}

private void ExtractLinkedResources(Uri uri, string html, out string modifiedhtml, out List<LinkedResource> linkedResources)
{
modifiedhtml = html;
linkedResources = new List<LinkedResource>();

List imageNames = ExtractImageNames(html);

int imageID = 1;

foreach (string imageName in imageNames)
{
try
{
// Deal with some escape characters that can occur in dynamic image url's
string workaroundImageName = imageName.Replace("&", "&");

// Generate the uri to retrieve the image - usually an image path is relative to the page uri
Uri imageUri = new Uri(uri, workaroundImageName);

// Retrieve the image
string contentType;
Stream imageStream = GetImageStream(imageUri, out contentType);

// Fill the linked resource
LinkedResource data = new LinkedResource(imageStream);

// Determine a name and set the media type of the linked resource
string generatedName = null;
if (contentType.ToLower().IndexOf("image/gif") >= 0)
{
data.ContentType.MediaType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Gif;
generatedName = "image" + imageID.ToString() + ".gif";
}
else if (contentType.ToLower().IndexOf("image/jpeg") >= 0)
{
data.ContentType.MediaType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg;
generatedName = "image" + imageID.ToString() + ".jpeg";
}

// it is something that I don't handle yet
if (generatedName == null)
continue;

// Generate the linked resource for the image being embedded
string generatedSrc = "cid:" + generatedName;
data.ContentType.Name = generatedName;
data.ContentId = generatedName;
data.ContentLink = new Uri(generatedSrc);
linkedResources.Add(data);

// Let the html refer to the linked resource
modifiedhtml = modifiedhtml.Replace(imageName, generatedSrc);
}
catch
{
modifiedhtml = modifiedhtml.Replace(imageName, "#");
}

imageID++;
}
}

///
/// longest length first
///
private class LengthComparer : IComparer
{
public int Compare(string x, string y)
{
return -x.Length.CompareTo(y.Length);
}
}

///
/// Sorts the list of strings so the longest names are in the start of the list
/// When there is an image named "a.aspx?id=1" and another named "a.aspx?id=12", the list should start with "a.aspx?id=12"
/// This guarantees that string replacement will not damage the names
///
///
///
static private List SortNoDuplicate(List input)
{
List result = new List(input);
IComparer comparer = new LengthComparer();
result.Sort(comparer);
return result;
}

///
/// Optimistic search for image names in an html document
/// The images found here will be embedded into the email
///
///
///
private static List ExtractImageNames(string html)
{
List imagenames = new List();
string[] imageattributes = new string[] { "src=", "background=" };
foreach (string imageattribute in imageattributes)
{
int position = 0;
while (position < html.Length)
{
int foundIndex = html.ToLower().IndexOf(imageattribute, position);
if (foundIndex < 0)
{
position = html.Length;
}
else
{
int valueStartIndex = foundIndex + imageattribute.Length + 1;
int foundIndexEnd = html.IndexOfAny(new char[] { '\"', ' ', '\'', '>' }, valueStartIndex);
if (foundIndexEnd < 0)
{
position = html.Length;
}
else
{
string relativeimagename = html.Substring(valueStartIndex, foundIndexEnd - valueStartIndex);
relativeimagename = relativeimagename.Trim(new char[] { '\"', ' ', '\'', '>' });
if (!imagenames.Contains(relativeimagename))
{
imagenames.Add(relativeimagename);
}
position = foundIndexEnd;
}
}
}
}
return SortNoDuplicate(imagenames);
}
}
}

Use of file:// protocol.

rrodriguez

3:11 3 Aug '07

If you want to use the file:// protocol you just need to do this changes in WebpageMailer.cs:

In SendMailMessage():

                  if (uri.IsFile)
                        htmlbody = File.ReadAllText(uri.LocalPath);
                  else
                        htmlbody = GetBody(uri);

Inside the loop in ExtractLinkedResources():

            // Retrieve the image
            string contentType = "image/gif";
            Stream imageStream;

            if (imageUri.IsFile)
                  imageStream = new StreamReader(imageUri.LocalPath).BaseStream;
            else
                  imageStream = GetImageStream(imageUri, out contentType);

----

I have used this in a scenario that the Mailer, runs on a server that has restricted access to the Internet and need to get the resources locally. This is the sample:

                  // Setup resource path.

                  Uri uri = new Uri(@"file://d:\Websites\LocalUser\regrazero.com\200701a\index.htm");

                  // Configure E-mail message.

                  Fmd.Mail.WebpageMailer mailer = new Fmd.Mail.WebpageMailer();
                  mailer.SmtpServerName = "mail.regrazero.com";
                  mailer.Delay = 0;
                  mailer.MailMessage.From = new MailAddress("contato@regrazero.com");
                  mailer.MailMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("rodriguez@regrazero.com"));
                  mailer.MailMessage.Subject = "Regra Zero Notícias (Julho 2007)";
                  mailer.MailMessage.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;

                  // Sends the webpage using a local resource.

                  mailer.SendMailMessage(uri);

Rodrigo Rodriguez

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Re: Use of file:// protocol.

Five Minute Developer

8:29 4 Aug '07

Nice extension! Thanks!
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Get images from a SQL table

sma1624

12:22 1 Mar '07

Does this work with HTML; like the following This is a test1 This is a test2 <img src="file.aspx?id=photo.jpg"> This is a test3 <img src="file.aspx?id=train.jpg"> This is a test3 This is a test3 File.aspx?id= - brings back the image from a SQL table Thanks Nice code!!
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want to help

tariq developer

21:44 24 Jan '07

I am asp.net developer i download code from your article and open this file in asp.net 1.1 but it show errors.i want to ask you whether this code for asp.net 1.1 or asp.net 2.0 .please tell me how can i use this code. Thanks tariq
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Re: want to help

Five Minute Developer

1:17 29 Jan '07

Since this article relies on the LinkedResource class which is new in .Net Framework 2.0, it cannot be used in .Net 1.1 unfortunately..
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How to save/edit the email

LittleGrass

17:18 22 Jan '07

Thanks for your solustion of sending the embended email. Now i have some question to send a email. I want to write a email(which have some pictures) as a templete, then save the email contents to the database. I want to review the email contents and change something later. Can you help me? Thanks lots.
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Re: How to save/edit the email

Five Minute Developer

3:33 23 Jan '07

What you want to do is similar to what I wrote, in the sense that the same control flow can be used. You will have to make a few modifications to suit it to your needs.

In step 1 where I get the html code from a webserver, you will have to read your template from a file or database.

In step 3 where I get the images from a webserver, you will have to read the images from your file system or a database.

Before you send the email you will have to get the (changed) email contents from the database and insert it into the template.

I am not sure how you are planning to use the database. Will it have to contain the entire email, or just the contents (text)? Will the database contain the images, or will the images and the template be on your file system? How do you want to review the contents? If you provide some more details about your planned usage, I may be able to give more specific tips or pointers.

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How can it have SMTP basic athentication?

cornejoserrano

2:22 5 Jan '07

Thanks for your article. My mail server needs authentication, I tried another article in CodeProject, but it does not has SendMessage(uri) implemented. (http://www.codeproject.com/cs/internet/smtpemailer.asp) Do you know how, or another mailing class? Gustavo
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Re: How can it have SMTP basic athentication?

Five Minute Developer

11:18 5 Jan '07

In my article I rely on the services provided in the namespace System.Net.Mail, and combine these to perform a task. That means that to authenticate to an smpt server, you would have to use the authentication services provided by the classes in System.Net.Mail.

I think that you need to make a small change in the place where the mail is actually sent. System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient has a property Credentials that I do not use. I think that you need to provide the credentials there. You can see an example of setting credentials on system.net.mail.smtpclient.credentials[^]

I hope this helps.

Re: How can it have SMTP basic athentication?

Cool Dirty Boy

21:27 23 Oct '07

i already edit this code just to support smtp connection. see my code implementation below


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace Framework.Web
{

    // How to use ... Reference URL : http://www.codeproject.com/cs/internet/Mail_Webpage_with_images.asp
    //// The contents that will be sent
    //Uri uri = new Uri("http://about.com/");

    //// Configuration of the email message
    //Fmd.Mail.WebpageMailer mailer = new Fmd.Mail.WebpageMailer();
    //mailer.SmtpServerName = "mail.somesmptserver.com";
    //mailer.Delay = 0;
    //mailer.MailMessage.From = new MailAddress("noreply@somedomain.com");
    //mailer.MailMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("recipient@somedomain.com"));
    //mailer.MailMessage.Subject = "Automatic Mail Message " + 
    //                             DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();
    //mailer.MailMessage.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;
    //mailer.SmtpServerPassword = "somesmtppassword";
    //mailer.SmtpServerUserName = "somesmtpusername";

    //// Sending the webpage
    //mailer.SendMailMessage(uri);

    public class WebpageMailer
    {
        MailMessage _mailMessage = new MailMessage();
        public MailMessage MailMessage
        {
            get
            {
                return _mailMessage;
            }
        }

        string _smptServerName;
        public string SmtpServerName
        {
            get { return _smptServerName; }
            set { _smptServerName = value; }
        }

        string _smptServerUserName;
        public string SmtpServerUserName
        {
            get { return _smptServerUserName; }
            set { _smptServerUserName = value; }
        }


        string _smptServerPassword;
        public string SmtpServerPassword
        {
            get { return _smptServerPassword; }
            set { _smptServerPassword = value; }
        }


       

        int _delay;
        /// 
        /// The delay can be used to relieve stress from a webserver
        /// It is the number of milliseconds that the application waits before retrieving the next image
        /// 

        public int Delay
        {
            get { return _delay; }
            set { _delay = value; }
        }

        /// 
        /// Sends the contents of the uri as a mailmessage
        /// The mail message should be configured first with recipient atc...
        /// 

        /// "uri">
        public void SendMailMessage(Uri uri)
        {
            // Retrieve the contents
            string htmlbody = GetBody(uri);

            // See what images there are to embed
            string modifiedbody;
            List<LinkedResource> foundResources;
            ExtractLinkedResources(uri, htmlbody, out modifiedbody, out foundResources);

            // Write the html to a memory stream
            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
            byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(modifiedbody);
            stream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
            stream.Position = 0;

            // Configure the mail so it contains the html page
            _mailMessage.Body = "This is a html mail - use an email client that can read it";
            AlternateView altView = new AlternateView(stream, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);

            // Embed the images into the mail
            foreach (LinkedResource linkedResource in foundResources)
            {
                altView.LinkedResources.Add(linkedResource);
            }
            _mailMessage.AlternateViews.Add(altView);            

            // Send the mail
            SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(_smptServerName);
            
            if (((_smptServerUserName != null) && (_smptServerPassword != null)) && ((_smptServerUserName.Length > 0) && (_smptServerPassword.Length > 0)))
            {
                NetworkCredential nc = new NetworkCredential(_smptServerUserName, _smptServerPassword);
                client.Credentials = nc;
            }

            client.Send(_mailMessage);
        }

        /// 
        /// Gets the body of the mail message
        /// 

        /// "uri">
        /// 
        public static string GetBody(Uri uri)
        {
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

            // Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request
            request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4;
            request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4;
            // Set credentials to use for this request.
            request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            // Get the stream associated with the response.
            Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();

            // Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format. 
            StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);

            string body = readStream.ReadToEnd();
            readStream.Close();

            response.Close();
            return body;
        }

        /// 
        /// Retrieves an image to embed
        /// 

        /// "uri">
        /// "contentType">
        /// 
        Stream GetImageStream(Uri uri, out string contentType)
        {
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(_delay);

            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);

            // Set some reasonable limits on resources used by this request
            request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 4;
            request.MaximumResponseHeadersLength = 4;
            // Set credentials to use for this request.
            request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            // Get the stream associated with the response.
            Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();

            BinaryReader binaryReader = new BinaryReader(receiveStream);
            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
            try
            {
                while (true)
                {
                    byte b = binaryReader.ReadByte(); // Not so efficient but it works...
                    memoryStream.WriteByte(b);
                }
            }
            catch (EndOfStreamException)
            {
                memoryStream.Position = 0;
            }

            contentType = response.ContentType;
            response.Close();
            return memoryStream;
        }

        private void ExtractLinkedResources(Uri uri, string html, out string modifiedhtml, out List<LinkedResource> linkedResources)
        {
            modifiedhtml = html;
            linkedResources = new List<LinkedResource>();

            List imageNames = ExtractImageNames(html);

            int imageID = 1;

            foreach (string imageName in imageNames)
            {
                try
                {
                    // Deal with some escape characters that can occur in dynamic image url's
                    string workaroundImageName = imageName.Replace("&", "&");

                    // Generate the uri to retrieve the image - usually an image path is relative to the page uri
                    Uri imageUri = new Uri(uri, workaroundImageName);

                    // Retrieve the image
                    string contentType;
                    Stream imageStream = GetImageStream(imageUri, out contentType);

                    // Fill the linked resource
                    LinkedResource data = new LinkedResource(imageStream);

                    // Determine a name and set the media type of the linked resource
                    string generatedName = null;
                    if (contentType.ToLower().IndexOf("image/gif") >= 0)
                    {
                        data.ContentType.MediaType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Gif;
                        generatedName = "image" + imageID.ToString() + ".gif";
                    }
                    else if (contentType.ToLower().IndexOf("image/jpeg") >= 0)
                    {
                        data.ContentType.MediaType = System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg;
                        generatedName = "image" + imageID.ToString() + ".jpeg";
                    }

                    // it is something that I don't handle yet
                    if (generatedName == null)
                        continue;

                    // Generate the linked resource for the image being embedded
                    string generatedSrc = "cid:" + generatedName;
                    data.ContentType.Name = generatedName;
                    data.ContentId = generatedName;
                    data.ContentLink = new Uri(generatedSrc);
                    linkedResources.Add(data);

                    // Let the html refer to the linked resource
                    modifiedhtml = modifiedhtml.Replace(imageName, generatedSrc);
                }
                catch
                {
                    modifiedhtml = modifiedhtml.Replace(imageName, "#");
                }

                imageID++;
            }
        }

        /// 
        /// longest length first
        /// 

        private class LengthComparer : IComparer
        {
            public int Compare(string x, string y)
            {
                return -x.Length.CompareTo(y.Length);
            }
        }

        /// 
        /// Sorts the list of strings so the longest names are in the start of the list
        /// When there is an image named "a.aspx?id=1" and another named "a.aspx?id=12", the list should start with "a.aspx?id=12"
        /// This guarantees that string replacement will not damage the names
        /// 

        /// "input">
        /// 
        static private List SortNoDuplicate(List input)
        {
            List result = new List(input);
            IComparer comparer = new LengthComparer();
            result.Sort(comparer);
            return result;
        }

        /// 
        /// Optimistic search for image names in an html document
        /// The images found here will be embedded into the email
        /// 

        /// "html">
        /// 
        private static List ExtractImageNames(string html)
        {
            List imagenames = new List();
            string[] imageattributes = new string[] { "src=", "background=" };
            foreach (string imageattribute in imageattributes)
            {
                int position = 0;
                while (position < html.Length)
                {
                    int foundIndex = html.ToLower().IndexOf(imageattribute, position);
                    if (foundIndex < 0)
                    {
                        position = html.Length;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        int valueStartIndex = foundIndex + imageattribute.Length + 1;
                        int foundIndexEnd = html.IndexOfAny(new char[] { '\"', ' ', '\'', '>' }, valueStartIndex);
                        if (foundIndexEnd < 0)
                        {
                            position = html.Length;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            string relativeimagename = html.Substring(valueStartIndex, foundIndexEnd - valueStartIndex);
                            relativeimagename = relativeimagename.Trim(new char[] { '\"', ' ', '\'', '>' });
                            if (!imagenames.Contains(relativeimagename))
                            {
                                imagenames.Add(relativeimagename);
                            }
                            position = foundIndexEnd;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            return SortNoDuplicate(imagenames);
        }
    }
}

Re: How can it have SMTP basic athentication?

muhammedsimsek

2:10 14 May '08

why dosent work this code. error : Using the generic type 'System.Collections.Generic.IComparer requires '1' thanks.
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cool

Magician_Oz

12:37 28 Dec '06

Can you make a dll?
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Re: cool

Five Minute Developer

11:06 5 Jan '07

Creating a dll can be done like this: 1. In visual studio, go to File-New-Project and choose C# Class Library 2. Insert my sample file into the project (or copy the code into Class1) 3. Compile as release and you have created a dll that you can use in your other projects.
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Thanks !

NinjaCross

2:10 28 Dec '06

Really interesting solution, thanks for posting What about embedding SWF/MPG/JavaScript contents ? -- NinjaCross www.ninjacross.com
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Five Minute Developer

10:01 28 Dec '06

I think that those content types you mention are difficult to do.

When you search on google you are going to find things like this:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/01/the_truth_about_1.html[^]
That suggests that you are about to expect trouble when you are going to try to send flash movies.

Since email clients try to protect their users from unwanted spam I expect the same trouble with anything that is too 'intrusive'.

MediaTypeNames.Image supports Gif, Jpef and Tiff, so I'm afraid that other types are not so easy to embed.

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NinjaCross

8:03 30 Dec '06

Tnx so much for you answer -- NinjaCross www.ninjacross.com
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Server.Execute

Gabe Wishnie

9:50 23 Dec '06

If it is an asp.net app (i.e. the HttpContext is not null) then the easiest way to get the body is just doing a Server.Execute.
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Re: Server.Execute

Five Minute Developer

1:16 24 Dec '06

Thanks, that would be a good extension!
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Introduction

Usage

The main methods of the class

Sending the mail message

Filling the LinkedResource

Getting a web page

Glueing everything together

Final remarks