Sending email with an attachment through Godaddy email workspace on godaddy using asp.net mvc

Question

Am trying to send email through godaddy workspace email account with an uploaded attachment on godaddy using asp.net mvc. The mail is sent but uploaded file is not attached properly.

At view level

<form action="@Url.Action("index")" method="post" data-form-title="CONTACT FORM" enctype="multipart/form-data">
                    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

                       ...other page inputs..


                    <div class=" row row-sm-offset">
                        <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-12">
                            <div class="form-group">
                                <label class="form-control-label" for="form1-h-name">Upload Design (Properties: Images Type - PNG, JPEG; Max Size - 500kb )</label>
                                @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Design,
                               new
                               {
                                   @class = "form-control",
                                   type = "file",
                                   required = "true"
                               })
                            </div>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <label class="form-control-label" for="form1-h-message">Enter Message (Optional)</label>
                        @Html.TextAreaFor(x => x.AdditionalMessage, new
                   {
                       @class = "form-control",
                       placeholder = "Enter additional message"
                   })
                    </div>                      
                    <div><button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Send Job</button></div>
                </form>

The model class

 public class SendPrintJob
{
    other properties of the model class..

    [Required]
    [DataType(DataType.Date)]
    public DateTime DeliveryDate { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public HttpPostedFileBase Design { get; set; }       

    public string AdditionalMessage { get; set; }
}

At the Controller level

[HttpPost, ActionName("index")][ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public async Task<ActionResult> index_post(SendPrintJob obj)
{
        papertypeList();
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            var date = DateTime.Now;
            int dateresult = DateTime.Compare(date, obj.DeliveryDate);
            if (dateresult > 0)
            {
                FlashMessage.Danger("Delivery Date Error: Delivery date entered should be later than todays date!");
                return View(obj);
            }
            string uploadErrorMsg = string.Empty;
            string uploadedImageFormat;
            if(!isValidUpload(obj.Design, out uploadErrorMsg, out uploadedImageFormat))
            {
                FlashMessage.Danger("Upload Error", uploadErrorMsg);                    
            }
            var body = "<p>Print Job<br/><br/>" +
                    "<b>SENDER DETAILS</b><br/>" +
                    "Name: {0}<br/>" +
                    "Email: {1}<br/>" +
                    "Phone Number: {2}<br/><br/>" +
                    "<b>JOB DETAILS</b><br>" +
                    "Delivery Date: {3}<br/>" +
                    "Paper Type: {4}<br/>" +
                    "Paper/Image Size: {5}<br/>" +
                    "Print Copies Required: {6}<br/>" +
                    "Trimming Required: {7}<br/><br/>" +
                    "Additional Message:<br/>" +
                    "{8}<br/><br/>" +
                    "Download email attachment for Design<br/>";
            string add_Msg = null;

            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(obj.AdditionalMessage))
                add_Msg = "No Message!";
            else
                add_Msg = obj.AdditionalMessage;

            var message = new MailMessage();
            message.Body = string.Format(body, obj.Name, obj.email, obj.Phone,
                obj.DeliveryDate.ToLongDateString(), obj.papertype, obj.paper_imagesize,
                obj.numberofcopies, obj.triming, add_Msg);

            message.To.Add(new MailAddress("reciepient's email address here"));
            message.IsBodyHtml = true;                
            message.Subject = "Print job sent as at - "+date.ToLongDateString()+" / "+date.ToShortTimeString();
            if(obj.Design != null)                
                message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(obj.Design.InputStream, Path.GetFileName(obj.Design.FileName)));

            var smtp = new SmtpClient();
            await smtp.SendMailAsync(message);
            FlashMessage.Confirmation("Print Job sent successfully.");
            return RedirectToAction("index");
        }
        return View(obj);
    }

The email is sent successfully but the picture attached has 0 byte(s)

Please show the code that initializes `obj`, especially the code that initializes the `InputStream` property. I would also set a breakpoint somewhere in that code to see what `obj.InputStream.Length` is. — Brian Pechkis, Dec 31 '16 at 14:43
the complete code is shown including the code that initializes `obj` — Victor.Uduak, Dec 31 '16 at 20:41
Have you tried this? http://stackoverflow.com/a/1317248/5082686 — Brian Pechkis, Jan 01 '17 at 00:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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This worked perfectly, using the seek method on the inputstream

 if (obj.Design != null)
 {
     var stream = obj.Design.InputStream;
     stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
     message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(stream, Path.GetFileName(obj.Design.FileName)));
 }

That answer was found here

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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