Problem with System.Web.Mail.MailMessage and HTML mail

**MickeBoy** · Nov 19 '05, 02:52 PM

RE: Problem with System.Web.Mail .MailMessage and HTML mail

First I thought that this was an encoding problem and now I have tried every
encoding available with no luck.

Does anyone have a clue?

--
Micke

"MickeBoy" wrote:
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> Hi all!
>
> I'm trying to send a HTML mail using the MailMessage class. Sending the
> message works fine, but there is something funny with the received message. I
> use the code below to generate and send a sample message. When I recieve it
> and open it in Outlook 2003 the style for my table cell is not applied. This
> is because the dot (.) before the class in the style tag has been removed!!
> If I insert another dot before class definition in the style tag, one is
> removed and the result is displayed correctly. If I insert a space before the
> dot, the space remains and everything is fine. Why is this happening and
> where can I learn more about this? Where should I look for errors: sending or
> receiving?
>
> Best Regards
>
> Mikael
>
> Dim strHTMLPage As String = ""
>
> 'Head of HTML file
> strHTMLPage = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
> Transitional//EN"">" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "<HTML>" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "<HEAD>" & vbCrLf
>
> 'style start
> strHTMLPage += "<style type=""text/css"">" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "</style>" & vbCrLf
>
> 'end of head
> strHTMLPage += "</HEAD>" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "<BODY>" & vbCrLf
>
> 'body content
> strHTMLPage += "<TABLE width=""250"" height=""25"">" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "<TR>" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "<TD class=DemoClass >" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "Just testing" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "</TD>" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "</TR>" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "</TABLE>" & vbCrLf
>
> 'end of body
> strHTMLPage += "</BODY>" & vbCrLf
> strHTMLPage += "</HTML>" & vbCrLf
>
> Dim Msg As New MailMessage
> Msg.To = strTo
> Msg.From = strFrom
> Msg.Subject = "Test Message"
> Msg.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Html
> Msg.Body = strHTMLPage
>
> SmtpMail.Send(M sg)
> --
> Micke[/color]

Problem with System.Web.Mail.MailMessage and HTML mail

Problem with System.Web.Mail.MailMessage and HTML mail

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