How to create a multi line body in C# System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

Question

If create the body property as

System.Net.Mail.MailMessage message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();

message.Body =\"First Line \\n second line\";


        

Answer 1

I realise this may have been answered before. However, i had this issue this morning with Environment.Newline not being preserved in the email body. The following is a full (Now Working with Environment.NewLine being preserved) method i use for sending an email through my program.(The Modules.MessageUpdate portion can be skipped as this just writes to a log file i have.) This is located on the main page of my WinForms program.

    private void MasterMail(string MailContents)
    {
        Modules.MessageUpdate(this, ObjApp, EH, 3, 25, "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, "Master Email - MasterMail Called.", "N", MainTxtDict, MessageResourcesTxtDict);

        Outlook.Application OApp = new Outlook.Application();
        //Location of email template to use. Outlook wont include my Signature through this automation so template contains only that.
        string Temp = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + ResourceDetails.DictionaryResources("SigTempEmail", MainTxtDict);

        Outlook.Folder folder = OApp.Session.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderDrafts) as Outlook.Folder;

        //create the email object.
        Outlook.MailItem TestEmail = OApp.CreateItemFromTemplate(Temp, folder) as Outlook.MailItem;

        //Set subject line.
        TestEmail.Subject = "Automation Results";

        //Create Recipients object.
        Outlook.Recipients oRecips = (Outlook.Recipients)TestEmail.Recipients;

        //Set and check email addresses to send to.
        Outlook.Recipient oRecip = (Outlook.Recipient)oRecips.Add("EmailAddressToSendTo");
        oRecip.Resolve();

        //Set the body of the email. (.HTMLBody for HTML Emails. .Body will preserve "Environment.NewLine")
        TestEmail.Body = MailContents + TestEmail.Body;
        try
        {
            //If outlook is not open, Open it.
            Process[] pName = Process.GetProcessesByName("OUTLOOK.EXE");
            if (pName.Length == 0)
            {
                System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OUTLOOK.EXE");
            }

            //Send email
            TestEmail.Send();

            //Update logfile - Success.
            Modules.MessageUpdate(this, ObjApp, EH, 1, 17, "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, "Master Email sent.", "Y", MainTxtDict, MessageResourcesTxtDict);
        }
        catch (Exception E)
        {
            //Update LogFile - Fail.
            Modules.MessageUpdate(this, ObjApp, EH, 5, 4, "", "", "", 0, 0, 0, 0, "Master Email - Error Occurred. System says: " + E.Message, "Y", MainTxtDict, MessageResourcesTxtDict);
        }
        finally
        {
            if (OApp != null)
            {
                OApp = null;
            }
            if (folder != null)
            {
                folder = null;
            }
            if (TestEmail != null)
            {
                TestEmail = null;
            }
            GC.Collect();
            GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();
        }
    }

You can add multiple recipients by either including a "; " between email addresses manually, or in one of my other methods i populate from a Txt file into a dictionary and use that to create the recipients email addresses using the following snippet.

        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in EmailDict)
        {
            Outlook.Recipient oRecip = (Outlook.Recipient)oRecips.Add(kvp.Value);
            RecipientList += string.Format("{0}; ", kvp.Value);
            oRecip.Resolve();
        }

I hope at least some of this helps someone.

Answer 2

Something that worked for me was simply separating data with a :

message.Body = FirstLine + ":" + SecondLine;

I hope this helps