How to send emails in .NET part 2: the MailAddress object

In the previous post on this topic we saw how to send a plain text email with the MailMessage and SmtpClient objects.

You can refine the From and To fields of the message using the MailAddress object. You can specify the email address, a display name and an encoding. Specifying an encoding is seldom necessary.

So if you’d like to joke with your colleagues then this is one option:

MailAddress from = new MailAddress("andras.nemes@company.com", "Your boss");
MailAddress to = new MailAddress("john.smith@company.com");
string subject = "You are fired.";
string plainTextBody = "See you in hell.";
MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage(from, to);
mailMessage.Subject = subject;
mailMessage.Body = plainTextBody;

string smtpServer = "mail.company.com";
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(smtpServer);
client.Send(mailMessage);

The recipient will see an email similar to the following:

Of course they will eventually see the actual email address of the sender but they might get scared at first.

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