Send MailKit email with an attachment from memoryStream

Question

How to send an email with an attachment from memoryStream using MailKit? Currently, I'm sending using regular SMTP and attaching the file using the below code, but couldn't find any proper example to send it using MailKit package. I have gone through this two docs, but couldn't find a proper solution. http://www.mimekit.net/docs/html/M_MimeKit_AttachmentCollection_Add_6.htm

using System.Net.Mail;
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
                    message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(memoryStream, "Receipt.pdf", MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf));

This is my MailKit email code:

#region MailKit
                string fromEmail = GlobalVariable.FromEmail;
                string fromEmailPwd = "";//add sender password
                var email = new MimeKit.MimeMessage();
                email.From.Add(new MimeKit.MailboxAddress("Sender", fromEmail));

                email.To.Add(new MimeKit.MailboxAddress("receiver", "receiver@gmail.com"));
                var emailBody = new MimeKit.BodyBuilder
                {
                    HtmlBody = htmlString
                };
                email.Subject = "test Booking";
                email.Body = emailBody.ToMessageBody();
                //bytes is parameter.
                //MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
                //message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(memoryStream, "Receipt.pdf", MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf));

                using (var smtp = new MailKit.Net.Smtp.SmtpClient())
                {
                    smtp.Connect("smtp.gmail.com", 465, true);
                    smtp.Authenticate(fromEmail, fromEmailPwd);
                    smtp.Send(email);
                    smtp.Disconnect(true);
                }
                #endregion

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '20 at 14:25

If you'd like to stick with the MimeKit's BodyBuilder to build your message body, you can do something like this:

var emailBody = new MimeKit.BodyBuilder
{
    HtmlBody = htmlString
};
emailBody.Attachments.Add ("Receipt.pdf", bytes);

// If you find that MimeKit does not properly auto-detect the mime-type based on the
// filename, you can specify a mime-type like this:
//emailBody.Attachments.Add ("Receipt.pdf", bytes, ContentType.Parse (MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf));

message.Body = emailBody.ToMessageBody ();

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 30 '20 at 14:20

This is how it's done: you need to create a TextPart for the string content and a MimePart for the attachment and add both to a Multipart which is the Body of the MimeMessage

I assumed that you want to send an HTML string textContent and a PDF file with name filename which is already read using any stream named stream.

var multipart = new Multipart("mixed");
var textPart = new TextPart(TextFormat.Html)
{
    Text = textContent,
    ContentTransferEncoding = ContentEncoding.Base64,
};
multipart.Add(textPart);

stream.Position = 0; // you MUST reset stream position

var attachmentPart = new MimePart(MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf)
{
    Content = new MimeContent(stream),
    ContentId = filename,
    ContentTransferEncoding = ContentEncoding.Base64,
    FileName = filename
};
multipart.Add(attachmentPart);

mimeMessage.Body = multipart;

Note that as for contentType I used MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf from DLL System.Net.Mail and namespace System.Net.Mime, which equals the string "application/pdf". You may instead use any other library that you like, or write your own.

Send MailKit email with an attachment from memoryStream

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