Send a mail direct from Unity

Hello all,

I was searching for a way to send an email from Unity. I had a couple of posts from Search tool here, but nothing came real solid to me... and I found some results googling it...

So, if anyone wants to send an email direct from Unity, here is the code, I tested and it works... I sent with my own web company services, you could even send by your gmail account (I did not try yet), but this way works good...

Just sharing

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using System.Net.Mail;
4. using System.Net;
5.  
6. public class MailManager : MonoBehaviour {
7.  
8.     private MailMessage message;
9.  
10.     // ########################
11.     void Update()
12.     {
13.         //send your mail just typing space
14.         if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
15.         {
16.             SendMail();
17.         }
18.     }
19.     // ########################
20.     private void SendMail()
21.     {
22.        
23.         message = new MailMessage();
24.         message.To.Add("to_your_destiny@gmail.com, another_address@domain.com");
25.        
26.         message.Subject = "Test message from Unity";
27.         message.Body = "Message test:<br>Second line";
28.         message.IsBodyHtml = true;
29.  
30.         message.From = new MailAddress("my_mail@mydomain.com", "Im the guy");
31.  
32.         SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("mail.yoursmtpservice.com", 587);
33.         smtp.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
34.  
35.         //If you dont need authentication, just leave the next fields
36.         // =========================================================
37.         // Enable Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for connection encryption
38.         smtp.EnableSsl = false;
39.         // Do not send the DefaultCredentials with requests
40.         smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
41.         // Create a System.Net.NetworkCredential object and set
42.         // the username and password required by your SMTP account
43.         smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("mymail@mydomain.com", "mypassword") as ICredentialsByHost;
44.         smtp.Timeout = 20000;
45.         // =========================================================
46.  
47.         smtp.Send(message);
48.         Debug.Log("Mail sent");
49.     }
50.     // #########################
51.  

Cheers

 

If you deploy to web, this will only work if the remote server is running a socket policy server. (i think!)

 

why would you hand out your private business mail credentials to everyone? (thats exactly what you do there basically)

The Mail api is total blurp for anything but ASP websites or letting users configure it with their data.
You better push the mail sending to your backend, use WWW to call the webservice which actually facilitates the sending. that way your credential remain your credentials and you can additially take the required spam prevention steps to not get sued for spaming

 

@andorov
Maybe, I did not test it yet... there are examples with google mail, I did not try it...

@dreamora
There are a lot of examples to do it using WWW call or another way, but with this way there is no solid example in Unity foruns (I did not find), I just wanted to give the code...
I'm not saying if it is secure or not... I work with advergames, sometimes we need to make an application with Unity that it will run just for a day or two, and so this works really good if I dont want to make any WWW calls or read/write to PHP or anything...

Why dont you send an example about what you saying instead of keep sending posts/replies to others users posts saying that you know a very superb better way to do it all the time? Of course there is a better way, it is very obvious that my private business credentials are there... and thats what the example stands for... just an example

 

Send ok. Thanks for share.