How to use Blind Carbon Copy BCC in smtp gmail add method

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May i know how to use bcc in the add method? I am using stmp gmail in vb.net visual studios 2010.
& how do I add multiple recipients ?

On top of that, does anyone knows how to retrieve the email from database into this line?

VB

Dim bcc As New MailAddress("fionatan06@gmail.com")
           mail.Bcc.Add(bcc)

Urgent! Thank you.
my code is :

VB

Protected Sub SendMail_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SendMail.Click

        Try
            Dim SmtpServer As New SmtpClient()
            Dim mail As New MailMessage()
            SmtpServer.Credentials = New  _
Net.NetworkCredential("fionatan06@gmail.com", "bananaboat")
            SmtpServer.Port = 587
            SmtpServer.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"
            SmtpServer.EnableSsl = True
            mail = New MailMessage()
            mail.From = New MailAddress("fionatan06@gmail.com")
            mail.To.Add("fionatyl@hotmail.com")
            Dim bcc As New MailAddress("fionatan06@gmail.com")
            mail.Bcc.Add(bcc)
            mail.Subject = TextBox1.Text
            mail.IsBodyHtml = True
            mail.Body = TextBox2.Text + "<br></br><br></br>This is an auto-generated message. Please do not reply. Thank you.<br></br><br></br>Colore"
            Dim MyAttachment As Attachment = New Attachment("C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\EAIPJ(Coloré-Rachel,Peiwen,Sherry,Fiona)\Coloré\Images\BLACK SHATTER.jpg")
            mail.Attachments.Add(MyAttachment)
            SmtpServer.Send(mail)
            MsgBox("Mail Send")
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.ToString)
        End Try
    End Sub

Posted 27-Jun-12 5:13am

Fiona Tan

Updated 27-Jun-12 7:05am

Sandeep Mewara

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Tim Corey · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-27T05:17:00

Solution 1

Here is an example of how to send email through Gmail using VB.NET:

http://www.emailarchitect.net/easendmail/kb/vbnet.aspx?cat=2[^]

To include an email in the BCC field, you need to add it to the BCC collection. See here for a further explanation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.mailmessage.bcc.aspx[^]

The code would look like this:

VB

MailAddress bcc = new MailAddress("example@dummy.int");
oMail.Bcc.Add(bcc);

To add multiple email addresses to this list, you just keep adding them, like so:

C#

MailAddress bcc = new MailAddress("example@dummy.int");
oMail.Bcc.Add(bcc);
bcc = new MailAddress("example2@dummy.int");
oMail.Bcc.Add(bcc);

Posted 27-Jun-12 5:17am

Tim Corey

Updated 27-Jun-12 5:48am

v3

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Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 11:24am

how come i tried but the error is " property Bcc is read only "

Tim Corey 27-Jun-12 11:35am

I apologize. I wrote that code quickly and I forgot that BCC is a collection and not a single value. I've updated my answer with working code. I've also included a link to MSDN where it explains BCC.

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 11:44am

thank you. amay i know if I want to send it to many recipients in bcc, how do i do that?

Tim Corey 27-Jun-12 11:50am

I've updated my solution to show you. Basically, since BCC is a collection, you can just keep adding addresses. In my example, I just reinitialize the bcc variable with a new address and then add that to the oMail.Bcc collection.

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 11:45am

may

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 12:19pm

Dim bcc As New MailAddress("fionatan06@gmail.com")
mail.Bcc.Add(bcc)
bcc = New MailAddress("fionatan07@gmail.com")
mail.Bcc.Add(bcc)
bcc = New MailAddress("fionatan08@gmail.com")
mail.Bcc.Add(bcc)

is it like that?

Tim Corey 27-Jun-12 12:38pm

Yep.

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 12:44pm

Thank you

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 12:55pm

If I want to get my email to address and set it to the bcc, how do I do that?

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 12:57pm

For example, I retrieve a list of email from database - email column from the customer table.
How do I set it to the number of bcc that will generate itself by the numbers of emails they have, and how do I retrieve it from the database?

any idea?

Tim Corey 27-Jun-12 12:59pm

To generate an unknown number of BCC email addresses, simply put the addresses in a list and then do a foreach loop on the list. Inside the loop, create your bcc address and add it to the mail.Bcc collection.

Fiona Tan 27-Jun-12 13:11pm

can you explain further? and can you explain to me what is foreach loop?
i am a beginner in programming. help is needed. thanks

Tim Corey 27-Jun-12 14:40pm

Here is a link to help you out: http://www.dotnetperls.com/for-each-vbnet I would recommend that you go through some good tutorials on developing in VB.NET before you continue, however. It seems like you would really benefit from a good foundation in the basics. This will help you better understand what to do and it will be less frustrating for you as well.