Email format in c# [NOT sending/making it]

[developing]

Hi,

Please bear with me if this sounds like a non-intuitive question. Anyone have any insights as to how System.Net.MailMessage class is implemented?

Does it construct a simple C/MIME string and append the properties to it? Does it do the following? The following is just a guess so I would really appreciate it if someone were to point me to something about email format(s)...

string message = "To: " + toVar + "\n" +
 "From: " + fromVar + "\n"
 "CC: " + ccVar + "\n"
 
 

I want to construct a few messages then poll my server to collect performance stats. To be able to correctly measure the performance I need to know the simple email format...its just c/mime (and therefore just text) isnt it? Then i can add headers to it, right?

thanks!

[cloud255]

Well according to this article the code you supplied will generate a plain text email...

You can add headers to the mail with the following code;

MyMailMessage.Headers.Add("key", "value");

Hope this helps