HTML E-mail with images

The code sample sends HTML E-Mail messages that can include images from a C# program.

We can Use AlternateView and LinkedResource classes to create an html email and embed the image as a linked resource instead of attachment. we can also have to change the url / src of the image to the format "cid:ContentId". It will work for both img and background. Here is a code

//create the mail message
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

//set the addresses
mail.From = new MailAddress("user@gmail.com");
mail.To.Add("you@gmail.com");

//set the content
mail.Subject = "Test mail";

//first we create the Plain Text part
AlternateView plainView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("This is my text , viewable by those clients that don't support html", null, "text/plain");

//then we create the Html part
//to embed images, we need to use the prefix 'cid' in the img src value
//the cid value will map to the Content-Id of a Linked resource.
//thus "" will map to a LinkedResource with a ContentId of 'logo'
AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("Here is an embedded image."", null, "text/html");

//create the LinkedResource (embedded image)
LinkedResource logo = new LinkedResource( "c:\\temp\\companylogo.gif" );
logo.ContentId = "logo";
//add the LinkedResource to the appropriate view
htmlView.LinkedResources.Add(logo);

//add the views
mail.AlternateViews.Add(plainView);
mail.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);


//send the message
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("127.0.0.1"); //specify the mail server address
smtp.Send(mail);