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Adding E-Mail Attachments

Most e-mails contain attachments, so it is important that the SmtpMail object allow for these in some fashion. To create an attachment, the MailAttachment object enables a file attachment to be created; this attachment then can be added to the Ilist collection. The Ilist collection (found in the System.Collections namespace) handles all e-mail attachments.

Attaching a file to an e-mail can be done using one of two methods. First, you can issue a call to the Add() method of the Attachments property. The Add() method takes a single parameter, the pathname to the file. If a MailMessage object were already declared, the following code would be used to make a file attachment.

Visual Basic Example

 MailObj.Attachmenets.Add(new ...