I am using SmtpClient to send an email with an attachment. However for a certain batch we need to somehow save the MailMessage instead of sending them. We are then thinking/hoping to manually upload the messages to the users drafts folder.
Is it possible to save these messages with the attachment intact (impossible, I would have thought). Or alternatively upload the messages to a folder in the users account?
If anyone has any experience of this, I'd much appreciate a bit of help or a pointer.
When testing in ASP.NET we save our emails to a folder rather then send them through an email server. Maybe you could change yourweb.config settings like this for your batch?
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">
<specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\Temp\mail\"/>
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>
Additional Info:
This can help - Adding Save() functionality to Microsoft.Net.Mail.MailMessage
The main ideia, make an extension to MailMessage ,that by reflection making a save method.
You can configure this with the system.net setting in your web.config / app.config file.
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp deliveryMethod="Network">
<network host="mail.mydomain.com" port="25" />
</smtp>
<!-- Use this setting for development
<smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">
<specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\Temp" />
</smtp>
-->
</mailSettings>
</system.net>
Also, here's a link with info on migrating from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail.