What does MailMessage.IsBodyHtml do?

Question

I\'m testing sending out some emails via C#, but I can\'t tell what effect setting IsBodyHtml to true has. Regardless of the value, whatever I sen

Answer 1

I just wrestled with this same problem. My best solution was to avoid setting the Body property of the MailMessage object at all. Instead just add two AlternateViews, first a plain text then an HTML. Make sure to add the plain text version first because the MIME standard says that:

The formats are ordered by how faithful they are to the original, with the least faithful first and the most faithful last.

That means, that you put the plain text version first, so the clients should use the HTML version if possible.