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C# sending mails with images inline using SmtpClient

Asked 2009-07-31T14:27:32.570
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SmtpClient() allows you to add attachments to your mails, but what if you wanna make an image appear when the mail opens, instead of attaching it?

As I remember, it can be done with about 4 lines of code, but I don't remember how and I can't find it on the MSDN site.

EDIT: I'm not using a website or anything, not even an IP address. The image(s) are located on a harddrive. When sent, they should be part of the mail. So, I guess I might wanna use an tag... but I'm not too sure, since my computer isn't broadcasting.

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The HTML Email and the images are attachments so it's just a case of referring to the image(s) by their content ids, i.e.

    Dim A As System.Net.Mail.Attachment = New System.Net.Mail.Attachment(txtImagePath.Text)
    Dim RGen As Random = New Random()
    A.ContentId = RGen.Next(100000, 9999999).ToString()
    EM.Body = "<img src='cid:" + A.ContentId +"'>"

There seems to be comprehensive examples here: Send Email with inline images

answered 2009-07-31T14:31:55.633

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