Create HTML message

The following example shows you how to create HTML message. It is important to set also RTF body if you mark message as Unsent. If you set some other MessageFlag like "Read" it is not necessary to set RTF body.

C# example

using System;
using Independentsoft.Msg;

namespace Sample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Message message = new Message();

            Recipient recipient1 = new Recipient();
            recipient1.AddressType = "SMTP";
            recipient1.DisplayType = DisplayType.MailUser;
            recipient1.ObjectType = ObjectType.MailUser;
            recipient1.DisplayName = "John Smith";
            recipient1.EmailAddress = "John@domain.com";
            recipient1.RecipientType = RecipientType.To;

            Recipient recipient2 = new Recipient();
            recipient2.AddressType = "SMTP";
            recipient2.DisplayType = DisplayType.MailUser;
            recipient2.ObjectType = ObjectType.MailUser;
            recipient2.DisplayName = "Mary Smith";
            recipient2.EmailAddress = "Mary@domain.com";
            recipient2.RecipientType = RecipientType.Cc;

            string htmlBody = "<html><body><b>Hello World bold html text</b></body></html>";
            byte[] rtfBody = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\fromhtml1 \\htmlrtf0 " + htmlBody + "}");

            message.Subject = "Html message";
            message.DisplayTo = "John Smith";
            message.DisplayCc = "Mary Smith";
            message.Recipients.Add(recipient1);
            message.Recipients.Add(recipient2);
            message.BodyHtmlText = htmlBody;
            message.BodyRtf = rtfBody;
            message.MessageFlags.Add(MessageFlag.Unsent);
            message.StoreSupportMasks.Add(StoreSupportMask.Create);

            message.Save("c:\\temp\\message.msg", true);
        }
    }
}

VB example

Imports System
Imports Independentsoft.Msg

Namespace Sample
    Class Module1
        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            Dim message As New Message()

            Dim recipient1 As New Recipient()
            recipient1.AddressType = "SMTP"
            recipient1.DisplayType = DisplayType.MailUser
            recipient1.ObjectType = ObjectType.MailUser
            recipient1.DisplayName = "John Smith"
            recipient1.EmailAddress = "John@domain.com"
            recipient1.RecipientType = RecipientType.[To]

            Dim recipient2 As New Recipient()
            recipient2.AddressType = "SMTP"
            recipient2.DisplayType = DisplayType.MailUser
            recipient2.ObjectType = ObjectType.MailUser
            recipient2.DisplayName = "Mary Smith"
            recipient2.EmailAddress = "Mary@domain.com"
            recipient2.RecipientType = RecipientType.Cc

            Dim htmlBody As String = "<html><body><b>Hello World bold html text</b></body></html>"
            Dim rtfBody As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\fromhtml1 \htmlrtf0  " & htmlBody & "}")

            message.Subject = "Html message"
            message.DisplayTo = "John Smith"
            message.DisplayCc = "Mary Smith"
            message.Recipients.Add(recipient1)
            message.Recipients.Add(recipient2)
            message.BodyHtmlText = htmlBody
            message.BodyRtf = rtfBody
            message.MessageFlags.Add(MessageFlag.Unsent)
            message.StoreSupportMasks.Add(StoreSupportMask.Create)

            message.Save("c:\temp\message.msg", True)

        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace

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