Send html email with embedded image and plain text with same image as attachment in C#

Question

I wish to send an email, with a plain text and html version. The email needs an image to go with it (not one I can host somewhere else), it should be embedded if the client

Answer 1

Plain text view, is exactly that. It is plain text, it has no images visible. You can attach a picture, but you cant make them view it.

Take a look at the raw email outlook sends for example on how to show inline attachments. As an example heres some code someone else did: http://blog.devexperience.net/en/12/Send_an_Email_in_CSharp_with_Inline_attachments.aspx

-- Apparently the above link is no longer valid - a quick google provided the following example to inline a picture

string htmlBody = "
Picture

";
AlternateView avHtml = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString
    (htmlBody, null, MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);

// Create a LinkedResource object for each embedded image
LinkedResource pic1 = new LinkedResource("pic.jpg", MediaTypeNames.Image.Jpeg);
pic1.ContentId = "Pic1";
avHtml.LinkedResources.Add(pic1);


// Add the alternate views instead of using MailMessage.Body
MailMessage m = new MailMessage();
m.AlternateViews.Add(avHtml);

// Address and send the message
m.From = new MailAddress("email1@host.com", "From guy");
m.To.Add(new MailAddress("email2@host.com", "To guy"));
m.Subject = "A picture using alternate views";
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("mysmtphost.com");
client.Send(m);