MailAddress.User Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net.Mail

Assembly:

System.Net.Mail.dll

Source:

MailAddress.cs

Gets the user information from the address specified when this instance was created.

public:
 property System::String ^ User { System::String ^ get(); };

public string User { get; }

member this.User : string

Public ReadOnly Property User As String

Property Value

String

A String that contains the user name portion of the Address.

Examples

The following code example displays the destination of an email message.

static void CreateTestMessage3()
{
   MailAddress^ to = gcnew MailAddress( L"jane@contoso.com" );
   MailAddress^ from = gcnew MailAddress( L"ben@contoso.com" );
   MailMessage^ message = gcnew MailMessage( from,to );
   message->Subject = L"Using the new SMTP client.";
   message->Body = L"Using this new feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
   
   // Use the application or machine configuration to get the 
   // host, port, and credentials.
   SmtpClient^ client = gcnew SmtpClient;
   Console::WriteLine( L"Sending an email message to {0} at {1} by using the SMTP host {2}.", to->User, to->Host, client->Host );
   client->Send( message );
}

public static void CreateTestMessage3()
{
    MailAddress to = new MailAddress("jane@contoso.com");
    MailAddress from = new MailAddress("ben@contoso.com");
    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to);
    message.Subject = "Using the new SMTP client.";
    message.Body = @"Using this new feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
    // Use the application or machine configuration to get the
    // host, port, and credentials.
    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
    Console.WriteLine("Sending an email message to {0} at {1} by using the SMTP host={2}.",
        to.User, to.Host, client.Host);
    client.Send(message);
}

Remarks

In a typical email address, the user string includes all information preceding the "@" sign. For example, in "tsmith@contoso.com", the user is "tsmith".