Send Emails with Gmail Account with Attachment Samples and examples

With the code sample below you can send emails via your application using your Gmail account. First you need to change the settings in your Gmail account

step 1: Login to your Gmail Account with from which you will be sending e-mails.

step 2: Go to Gmail settings then click on Forwarding and POP/IMAP

step 3: In IMAP Access Check Enable IMAP

step 4: Then go to your application use below code

The AttachFile() method such be called first, which in turn will call the SendMail() method.


void AttachFile(string attachmentFile)
{
            System.Net.Mail.MailAddress toAddress = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("your-reciving-email@gmail.com");
            System.Net.Mail.MailAddress fromAddress = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("fromAddress@yahoo.com");
            System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mm = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress);
            mm.Subject = "Email Subject";
            System.Net.Mail.Attachment mailAttachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(printScreen);
            mm.Attachments.Add(mailAttachment);
            mm.IsBodyHtml = true;
            mm.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
            sendMail(mm);
}

 string sendMail(System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mm)
        {
            try
            {
                string smtpHost = "smtp.gmail.com";
                string userName = "your-email-address@gmail.com";//sending Id
                string password = "your-password";
                System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient mClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient();
                mClient.Port = 587;
                mClient.EnableSsl = true;
                mClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
                mClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password);
                mClient.Host = smtpHost;
                mClient.DeliveryMethod = System.Net.Mail.SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
                mClient.Send(mm);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
               MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
            }           
        }

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