MailkitTools provides e-mail services built on top of the popular MailKit library. These services are ideal to use within any .NET Core project that requires e-mail services, such as sending messages with an SMTP client and receiving e-mails with a POP3 client.
If you have a pre-configured email client (i.e., static configuration), you may
immediately send messages using the IConfiguredEmailService. In a .NET 6 or later
framework, you can initialize all email services using the following statement (in
the Program.cs file of an ASP.NET Core 6+ Razor Pages project, for instance):
builder.Services.AddMailkitTools(builder.Configuration.GetSection(nameof(EmailClientConfiguration)).Get<EmailClientConfiguration>());
The above statement adds a singleton service of type IEmailClientConfiguration,
a transient service of type IConfiguredEmailService and the new default
IEmailConfigurationProvider service, named DefaultEmailConfigurationProvider.
using MailkitTools;
using MailkitTools.DependencyInjection;
namespace MyEmailProject;
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
// Add services to the container.
builder.Services.AddRazorPages();
// add default pre-configured email services; this statement relies
// on a matching configuration section in the appsettings.config file
// named EmailClientConfiguration.
builder.Services.AddMailkitTools(builder.Configuration.GetSection(nameof(EmailClientConfiguration)).Get<EmailClientConfiguration>());
var app = builder.Build();
// rest of the code omitted for brevity
}
}Within a controller or PageModel, you can send an email as shown in the following
code sample (in a Contact.cshtml page):
using MailkitTools;
using MailkitTools.Services;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages;
namespace MyEmailProject.Pages;
public class ContactModel : PageModel
{
private readonly ILogger<ContactModel> _logger;
private readonly IConfiguredEmailService _emailService;
private readonly IConfiguration _configuration;
public ContactModel(ILogger<ContactModel> logger, IConfiguredEmailService emailService, IConfiguration configuration)
{
_logger = logger;
_emailService = emailService;
_configuration = configuration;
}
public async Task<IActionResult> OnPostAsync(ContactFormModel model)
{
try
{
var fromAddr = _configuration[$"{nameof(EmailClientConfiguration)}:UserName"];
var sendto = _configuration[$"{nameof(EmailClientConfiguration)}:SendTo"];
var message = "A contact form has been submitted on example.com<br/>" +
$"Name : {model.Name}<br/>" +
$"Email : {model.Email}<br/>" +
$"Subject : {model.Subject}<br/><br/>" +
$"{model.Message}";
var result = await _emailService.SendMessageAsync(fromAddr, sendto, model.Subject, message);
if (result)
return Content("OK");
else
{
if (_emailService.LastError != null)
_logger.LogError("Error while sending an email: {message}", _emailService.LastError);
return Content("Your message has not been sent.");
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_logger.LogError("{message}", ex);
return BadRequest(ex);
}
}
}
public class ContactFormModel
{
public string Name { get; set; } = null!;
public string Email { get; set; } = null!;
public string Subject { get; set; } = null!;
public string Message { get; set; } = null!;
}The Contact.cshtml page's content may resemble the following:
<form method="post" role="form">
<div class="row">
<div class="form-group col-md-6">
<label for="name">Your Name</label>
<input type="text" name="Name" class="form-control" id="name" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group col-md-6">
<label for="email">Your Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" name="Email" id="email" required>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="subject">Subject</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="Subject" id="subject" required>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea class="form-control" name="Message" id="message" rows="10" required></textarea>
</div>
<div class="text-center"><button type="submit">Send</button></div>
</form>In the appsettings.json configuration file (update appropriately):
{
"EmailClientConfiguration": {
"Host": "smtp.example.com",
"Port": 465,
"UseSsl": true,
"RequiresAuth": true,
"UserName": "username@example.com",
"Password": "some secure password",
"SendTo": "info@example.com"
}
}You can still use the IEmailSender service, and an implementation of the interface
is now included in the source. Here's a simplified implementation of the
MailkitTools.IEmailConfigurationProvider interface:
using MailkitTools;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
public class EmailConfigurationProvider : EmailConfigurationProviderBase
{
private readonly IEmailClientConfiguration _clientConfig;
public EmailConfigurationProvider(IOptions<EmailClientConfiguration> clientConfig)
{
_clientConfig = clientConfig.Value;
}
public override Task<IEmailClientConfiguration> GetConfigurationAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
// normally, you would retrieve the settings from a (file or database) store;
return Task.Run(() => _clientConfig);
}
}In Startup.cs:
using MailkitTools.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
public class Startup
{
public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
{
Configuration = configuration;
}
public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// ...
services.AddMailkitTools<EmailConfigurationProvider>();
// Don't forget to add a section named "EmailClientConfiguration" in the appsettings.json file
services.Configure<EmailClientConfiguration>(Configuration.GetSection(nameof(EmailClientConfiguration)));
// ...
}
}In the appsettings.json configuration file (update appropriately):
{
"EmailClientConfiguration": {
"Host": "smtp.example.com",
"Port": 25,
"UseSsl": false,
"RequiresAuth": false,
"UserName": "username@example.com",
"Password": "some secure password"
}
}Somewhere in a Models folder...
public class EmailModel
{
public string Subject { get; set; }
public string Body { get; set; }
public string From { get; set; }
[System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Required]
public string To { get; set; }
}
public class TestEmailModel
{
public EmailModel Message { get; set; }
public EmailClientConfiguration Config { get; set; }
}... and a controller (if applicable):
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using MailkitTools;
using MailkitTools.Services;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
public class EmailController : Controller
{
private readonly IEmailClientService _emailClient;
private readonly IEmailConfigurationProvider _emailConfigProvider;
public EmailController(IEmailClientService emailClient, IEmailConfigurationProvider emailConfigProvider)
{
_emailClient = emailClient;
_emailConfigProvider = emailConfigProvider;
}
[HttpPost]
public Task<IActionResult> Send([FromBody] EmailModel model)
{
return SendMessageAsync(model);
}
[HttpPost]
public Task<IActionResult> Test([FromBody] TestEmailModel model)
{
return SendMessageAsync(model.Message, model.Config);
}
protected async Task<IActionResult> SendMessageAsync(EmailModel model, IEmailClientConfiguration config = null)
{
if (config == null)
config = await _emailConfigProvider.GetConfigurationAsync();
_emailClient.Configuration = config;
// check the ControllerExtensions class below
return await this.SendEmailAsync(model, _emailClient);
}
}You can even improve reusability using an extension method:
using System;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using MailKit;
using MailKit.Security;
using MailkitTools.Services;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
/// <summary>
/// Provides extension methods for instances of the <see cref="Controller"/> class.
/// </summary>
public static class ControllerExtensions
{
private static string SmtpServerRequiresAuth = "The SMTP server requires authentication.";
private static string SmtpServerDoesNotSupportSsl = "The SMTP server does not support SSL.";
private static string SmtpHostUnreachable = "The SMTP host {0} is not reachable.";
/// <summary>
/// Asynchronously sends an e-mail on behalf of the given controller using the specified parameters.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="controller">The controller that initiated the action.</param>
/// <param name="model">An object used to create the message to send.</param>
/// <param name="emailClient">An object used to send the e-mail.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static async Task<IActionResult> SendEmailAsync(this Controller controller, EmailModel model, IEmailClientService emailClient)
{
var config = emailClient.Configuration;
try
{
var message = EmailClientService.CreateMessage(
model.Subject,
model.Body,
model.From,
model.To
);
await emailClient.SendEmailAsync(message);
return controller.Ok();
}
catch (ServiceNotAuthenticatedException ex)
{
if (true == config?.RequiresAuth)
return controller.BadRequest(new ServiceNotAuthenticatedException(SmtpServerRequiresAuth));
return controller.BadRequest(ex);
}
catch (SslHandshakeException ex)
{
if (true == config?.UseSsl)
return controller.BadRequest(new SslHandshakeException(SmtpServerDoesNotSupportSsl));
return controller.BadRequest(ex);
}
catch (SocketException)
{
return controller.BadRequest(new Exception(string.Format(SmtpHostUnreachable, config?.Host)));
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return controller.BadRequest(ex);
}
}
}