windows based email form

[mrcmb]

I needed a form that can send an email to our delivery computer. So i
made a form it emails fine. But the problem is when i get the form its
jumbled up an hard to read. So i got the idea just to use
mailformat.html. instead of mailformat.text. My question is how do i
access the text boxes from the form in the html. Or is their another
way that i can format the text in the email

thanks


ryan

[Aspnot]

Can you elaborate on exactly what you are trying to do?

[mrcmb]

ok lets say i have 4text boxes. The user fills in the text boxes and hit send. The email goes through fine, but I would like it to be formated so its easier to read. I want to format the email when it is received to be like this

name.........Ryan
Date......... 05-12-06
Location.....Baton Rouge
JOB...........crappy developer/Network Admin

but withouth the .......

[Aspnot]

That is easy to do. Can you send your code?

For the body of the e-mail you would do something like:

Dim sBody as String = ""
 
sBody += "name" & vbTab & vbTab & txtName.Text & vbCRLF
sBody += "Date" & vbTab & vbTab & txtDate.Text & vbCRLF
sBody += "Location" & vbTab & vbTab & txtLocation.Text & vbCRLF
sBody += "Job" & vbTab & vbTab & txtJob.Text
 
oMailer.Body = sBody

That came off the top of my head, but I think it is real close. You may have to add or remove some of the Tabs I put in there due to the length of the fields in the title column.

[mrcmb]

thanks a bunch ill give it a try. I havent touched VB in about two years.

[Aspnot]

Which version are you using? Here is some great info about sending mail in VB.NET 2003 and some earlier .NET versions. It changed a little in 2005.

http://www.systemwebmail.com/default.aspx

[mrcmb]

i have 2003 and 2005

[Aspnot]

In 2005, the e-mail abilities were moved from the System.Web.Mail namespace to the System.Net.Mail namespace.

[mrcmb]

is it possible to change the font of whats in the email

ryan