Extending the EmailSender to Include a Html Template
In the previous article ASP.NET Core 2.2 - SMTP EmailSender Implementation the EmailSender was sending just simple html message emails. That implementation used Dependency Injection for EmailSettings set in appsettings.json. This article will demonstrate how to add a html template.
I will add a private GetEmailTemplate method with parameters for subject and message to the EmailSender. We can use this method to take the simple html message and create a more appealing message with a banner header and email signature. If you followed the previous article, you have a page configured to test the email settings. I will use the same example to demonstrate the added function.
Edit EmailSender.cs, add a new GetEmailTemplate method.
private string GetEmailTemplate(string subject, string message)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(@"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="" utf-8"" />
<title>#Subject#</title>
</head>
<body style="" font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"">
<table border="" 0"" cellspacing="" 0"" width="" 100%"">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td width="" 700"">
<div style="" border: 2px solid #BannerColor#; background-color: #BannerBackcolor#; color: #BannerColor#; width: 90%; margin: 0 auto;"">
<div style="" padding: 5px 0; width: 100%; margin: 0 auto; text-align:center; font-size: 28px;"">#BannerText#</div>
</div>
<div style="" padding: 10px 10px; width: 90%; margin: 0 auto; font-size: 18px;"">
<h3>#Subject#</h3>
<p>
#Message#
</p>
<p>
Thank you,<br />
#EmailSignature#
</p>
<p>
This is an automated message.
</p>
</div>
<div style="" background-color: #BannerBackcolor#; color: #BannerColor#; padding: 10px 10px; width: 90%; margin: 0 auto; bottom: 10px;"">
© #Year#
</div>
</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>");
sb.Replace("#BannerBackcolor#", _emailSettings.BannerBackcolor);
sb.Replace("#BannerColor#", _emailSettings.BannerColor);
sb.Replace("#BannerText#", _emailSettings.BannerText);
sb.Replace("#Subject#", subject);
sb.Replace("#Message#", message);
sb.Replace("#EmailSignature#", _emailSettings.EmailSignature);
sb.Replace("#Year#", DateTime.Now.Year.ToString());
return sb.ToString();
}
You can edit this template to fit your requirements, but you should check the references. I ran into a few issues while designing the template. I used a blank web page with no master Layout which helped with initial layout and colors. Converting the html to a literal was next but not difficult. That allowed substitutions with StringBuilder and EmailSettings. It was responsive but I had to deal with no max width. I had to move style classes declared in the head section to element inline styles for GANGA (Gmail app for non-Google accounts). I have created a couple of specific templates based on this catch-all.
Section references:
This new method uses a few more EmailSettings so let's add them.
Edit appsettings.json and appsettings.Development.json, add the new EmailSettings.
"EmailSettings": {
"MailServer": "smtp.some_server.com",
"MailPort": 587,
"SenderName": "some name",
"Sender": "some_email@some_server.com",
"Password": "some_password",
"BannerBackcolor": "yellow",
"BannerColor": "orange",
"BannerText": "MyWebsite.Com",
"EmailSignature": "Support"
}
Add the new properties to the EmailSettings class in the Entities folder.
public class EmailSettings
{
public string MailServer { get; set; }
public int MailPort { get; set; }
public string SenderName { get; set; }
public string Sender { get; set; }
public string Password { get; set; }
public string BannerBackcolor { get; set; }
public string BannerColor { get; set; }
public string BannerText { get; set; }
public string EmailSignature { get; set; }
}
Call the GetEmailTemplate from SendEmailAsync in the EmailSender.
Edit EmailSender.cs > SendEmailAsync().
var builder = new BodyBuilder
{
TextBody = textMessage,
//HtmlBody = htmlMessage
HtmlBody = GetEmailTemplate(subject, htmlMessage)
};
In the previous article ASP.NET Core 2.2 - SMTP EmailSender Implementation we setup a test from a razor page and then updated the test for text and html messages.
Add this label and form to Index.cshtml.
<div class="row">
<div class="col-6">
<label class="alert alert-success">@Model.EmailStatusMessage</label>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-6">
<form method="post">
<div class="form-group">
<label asp-for="Email"></label>
<input asp-for="Email" class="form-control" />
<span asp-validation-for="Email" class="text-danger"></span>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Email Test</button>
</form>
</div>
</div>
Edit Index.cshtml.cs.
public class IndexModel : PageModel
{
private readonly IEmailSender _emailSender;
public IndexModel(IEmailSender emailSender)
{
_emailSender = emailSender;
}
public string EmailStatusMessage { get; set; }
[Required]
[BindProperty]
public string Email { get; set; }
public void OnGet()
{
}
public async Task OnPostAsync()
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return Page();
}
var email = Email;
var subject = "Email Template Test";
var textMessage = "This is the text message.";
var htmlMessage = "This is the <strong>html</strong> message.";
await _emailSender.SendEmailAsync(email, subject, textMessage, htmlMessage);
EmailStatusMessage = "Send test email was successful.";
return Page();
}
}
The result of my test.
Ken Haggerty
Created 02/22/19
Updated 02/22/19 16:38 GMT
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