Send an email with a HTML file as body (C#)

Question

How can I set the MailMessage's body with a HTML file ?

Answer 1

Just set the MailMessage.BodyFormat property to MailFormat.Html, and then dump the contents of your html file to the MailMessage.Body property:

using (StreamReader reader = File.OpenText(htmlFilePath)) // Path to your  {                                                         // HTML file     MailMessage myMail = new MailMessage();     myMail.From = "[email protected]";     myMail.To = "[email protected]";     myMail.Subject = "HTML Message";     myMail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html;      myMail.Body = reader.ReadToEnd();  // Load the content from your file...     //... } 

Answer 2

I case you are using System.Net.Mail.MailMessage, you can use:

mail.IsBodyHtml = true; 

System.Web.Mail.MailMessage is obsoleted but if using it: mail.BodyFormat works.