MailMessage.To Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net.Mail

Assembly:

System.Net.Mail.dll

Source:

MailMessage.cs

Gets the address collection that contains the recipients of this email message.

public:
 property System::Net::Mail::MailAddressCollection ^ To { System::Net::Mail::MailAddressCollection ^ get(); };

public System.Net.Mail.MailAddressCollection To { get; }

member this.To : System.Net.Mail.MailAddressCollection

Public ReadOnly Property To As MailAddressCollection

Property Value

MailAddressCollection

A writable MailAddressCollection object.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates setting the To property.

static void CreateTestMessage4( String^ server )
{
   MailAddress^ from = gcnew MailAddress( L"ben@contoso.com" );
   MailAddress^ to = gcnew MailAddress( L"Jane@contoso.com" );
   MailMessage^ message = gcnew MailMessage( from,to );
   message->Subject = L"Using the SmtpClient class.";
   message->Body = L"Using this feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
   SmtpClient^ client = gcnew SmtpClient( server );
   Console::WriteLine( L"Sending an email message to {0} by using SMTP host {1} port {2}.", to, client->Host, client->Port );
   client->Send( message );
   client->~SmtpClient();
}

public static void CreateTestMessage4(string server)
{
    MailAddress from = new MailAddress("ben@contoso.com");
    MailAddress to = new MailAddress("Jane@contoso.com");
    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to);
    message.Subject = "Using the SmtpClient class.";
    message.Body = @"Using this feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(server);
    Console.WriteLine("Sending an email message to {0} by using SMTP host {1} port {2}.",
         to.ToString(), client.Host, client.Port);

    try
    {
        client.Send(message);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in CreateTestMessage4(): {0}",
            ex.ToString());
    }
}

Public Shared Sub CreateTestMessage4(ByVal server As String)
    Dim from As MailAddress = New MailAddress("ben@contoso.com")
    Dim [to] As MailAddress = New MailAddress("Jane@contoso.com")
    Dim message As MailMessage = New MailMessage(from, [to])
    message.Subject = "Using the SmtpClient class."
    message.Body = "Using this feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily."
    Dim client As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient(server)
    Console.WriteLine("Sending an email message to {0} by using SMTP host {1} port {2}.", [to].ToString(), client.Host, client.Port)

    Try
        client.Send(message)
    Catch ex As Exception
        Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in CreateTestMessage4(): {0}", ex.ToString())
    End Try
End Sub

Remarks

The To property is used to designate the addresses on the To line of an email message. To add a recipient to an email message, create a MailAddress for the recipient's address, and then add that object to the collection returned by this property.