HOWTO: Sending mail from AX using .NET Framework.

Sometimes happen that SysMailer class (using CDO) is not the right solution for sending mails with attachments. There is a little sample of X++ Job that is using System.Net.Mail namespace to achieve same.

 static void JobNETSendMail(Args _args)
{
    System.Net.Mail.MailMessage             mailMessage;
    System.Net.Mail.Attachment              attachment;
    System.Net.Mail.AttachmentCollection    attachementCollection;
    System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient              smtpClient;
    System.Net.Mail.MailAddress             mailAddressFrom;
    System.Net.Mail.MailAddress             mailAddressTo;
    str                                     strBody;
    str                                     strSMTPServer;
    str                                     strFileName;
    FileIOPermission                        perm;
    ;

    // preparing parameters
    mailAddressFrom = new  System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("test@localmail.com", "");
    mailAddressTo = new  System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("admin@localmail.com","");
    strBody = "There is a email body";
    strSMTPServer = "MailServerName";
    
    // preparing mail with body, subject, from, to.
    mailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(mailAddressFrom, mailAddressTo);
    mailmessage.set_Subject("There is a email subject");
    mailmessage.set_Body(strBody);
    attachementCollection = mailMessage.get_Attachments();

    strFileName = "C:\\path\\filename";
    // assert permision
    perm = new FileIOPermission(strFileName,'w');
    perm.assert();

    // attaching file to that email.
    attachment = new System.Net.Mail.Attachment(strFileName);
    attachementCollection.Add(attachment);
    smtpClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient(strSMTPServer);
    smtpClient.Send(mailmessage);
    
    // release permision
    CodeAccessPermission::revertAssert();
}

Karel F

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2010
  here is a great example of using the same logic and object to send email messages with attachments xplusplus.info/.../how-to-send-email-with-attachments

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2011
  Hi, Does anyone know how to send email to multiple recipients using the same .NET class?  I tried to use the To property but it's not available in AX.  I'm getting a syntax error if I use that.  Any idea? Thanks, YH