C# Attaching System.Drawing.Image to Email

Question

Is there any way to attach System.Drawing.Image to email with out saving it, then grabbing it from the saved path.

Right now I'm creating the image and saving it. I then send email with:

MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
                string _body = "body"

                mail.Body = _body;
                string _attacmentPath;
                if (iP.Contains(":"))
                    _attacmentPath = (@"path1");//, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet));
                else
                    _attacmentPath = @"path2");
                mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(_attacmentPath, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet));
                mail.To.Add(_imageInfo.VendorEmail);
                mail.Subject = "Rouses' PO # " + _imageInfo.PONumber.Trim();
                mail.From = _imageInfo.VendorNum == 691 ? new MailAddress("email", "") : new MailAddress("email", "");
                SmtpClient server = null;
                mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
                mail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal; 
                server = new SmtpClient("server");
                try
                {

                    server.Send(mail);
                }
                catch
                {

                }

Is there anyway to directly pass the System.Drawing.Image to mail.Attachments.Add()?

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '14 at 21:43

18

You can't pass an Image directly to an attachment, but you can skip the file system by just saving the image to a MemoryStream, and then providing that MemoryStream to the attachment constructor:

var stream = new MemoryStream();
image.Save(stream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
stream.Position = 0;

mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(stream, "image/jpg"));

answered Feb 10 '14 at 21:43

Dan

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+1 - Your code is more compact and clean than the one I used. =) – OnoSendai Feb 10 '14 at 21:45
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thanks, this worked, just took me a couple of trys to realize i had to add ".jpg" to the end of the name parameter! – JustinV Feb 10 '14 at 22:41

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

In theory, you can convert the Image to a MemoryStream, and then add the stream as an attachment. It would go like this:

public static Stream ToStream(this Image image, ImageFormat formaw) {
  var stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
  image.Save(stream, formaw);
  stream.Position = 0;
  return stream;
}

Then you can use the following

var stream = myImage.ToStream(ImageFormat.Gif);

Now that you have the stream, you can add it as an attachment:

mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(stream, "myImage.gif", "image/gif" ));

References:

System.Drawing.Image to stream C#

c# email object to stream to attachment

C# Attaching System.Drawing.Image to Email

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