Mvc.Mailer send empty body mail C# webApi

Question

I am using MVCMailer and trying to send mail from WebApi, but mail always arrives with an empty message.

view is in /Views/Account/CreateUser.cshtml

and this is my code

public class Account: MailerBase
{

    public MvcMailMessage CreateUser(CreateNewAccount model)
    {
        return Populate(x =>
                            {
                                x.Subject = model.Subject;
                                x.ViewName = "CreateUser";
                                x.To.Add(model.Email);
                                ViewData.Model = model;
                            });
    }

When I send an email from the classic MVC controller, email arrives properly, but send from APiControler mail body is empty.

[RESOLVE] View must be in main Views folder, NOT in an Area. In my situation /Views/Account/CreateUser.cshtml

my ApiController is in Controllers.Api and I have custom route like this routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{id}", — mir89, Apr 26 '13 at 08:53
Experiencing this issue as well. Sending from a http handler. — nVentimiglia, Aug 31 '13 at 19:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

I think I figured out a workaround (took me a few hours of digging). In my case I have:

a Web API project exposing the REST endpoints
an MvcMailer MVC project containing the email templates (views)

The views are simply not found from the Web API project because they are located in the referenced assembly (the MvcMailler project). It's a very common issue apparently. I fixed it by installing the EmbeddedResourceVirtualPathProvider Nuget package (https://github.com/mcintyre321/EmbeddedResourceVirtualPathProvider) and it worked (almost) out of the box!

To understand better what's going on:

This article is a bit old but still valid: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15494/Load-WebForms-and-UserControls-from-Embedded-Resou
Found there: McvMailer doesn't see views
Bug in Github: https://github.com/smsohan/MvcMailer/issues/126

Hope it helps :)

Mvc.Mailer send empty body mail C# webApi

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