Unable to send an email to multiple addresses/recipients using C#

Question

I am using the below code, and it only sends one email - I have to send the email to multiple addresses.

For getting more than one email I use:

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Answer 1

This function validates a comma- or semicolon-separated list of email addresses:

public static bool IsValidEmailString(string emailAddresses)
{
    try
    {
        var addresses = emailAddresses.Split(',', ';')
            .Where(a => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(a))
            .ToArray();

        var reformattedAddresses = string.Join(",", addresses);

        var dummyMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
        dummyMessage.To.Add(reformattedAddresses);
        return true;
    }
    catch
    {
        return false;
    }
}

Answer 2

This code I use for send multiple mail for to, bcc and cc

MailMessage email = new MailMessage();
Attachment a = new Attachment(attach);
email.From = new MailAddress(from);//De
string[] Direcciones;
char[] deliminadores = { ';' };

//Seleccion de direcciones para el parametro to
Direcciones = to.Split(deliminadores);
foreach (string d in Direcciones)
email.To.Add(new MailAddress(d));//Para

//Seleccion de direcciones para el parametro CC
Direcciones = CC.Split(deliminadores);
foreach (string d in Direcciones)
email.CC.Add(new MailAddress(d));

//Seleccion de direcciones para el parametro Bcc
Direcciones = Bcc.Split(deliminadores);
foreach (string d in Direcciones)
enter code here`email.Bcc.Add(new MailAddress(d));

Answer 3

The problem is that you are supplying a list of addresses separated by semi-colons to the MailMessage constructor when it only takes a string representing a single address:

A String that contains the address of the recipient of the e-mail message.

or possibly a list separated by commas (see below).

Source

To specify multiple addresses you need to use the To property which is a MailAddressCollection, though the examples on these pages don't show it very clearly:

message.To.Add("one@example.com, two@example.com"));

The e-mail addresses to add to the MailAddressCollection. Multiple e-mail addresses must be separated with a comma character (",").

MSDN page

so creating the MailMessage with a comma separated list should work.

Answer 4

You are also allowed to pass MailMessage.To.Add()a comma separated list of valid RFC 822 e-mail addresses:

Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@bellcore.com>, Ned Freed <ned@innosoft.com>

So the code would be:

message.To.Add("Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@bellcore.com>, Ned Freed <ned@innosoft.com>");

Note: Any code released into public domain. No attribution required.

Answer 5

This is what worked for me. (recipients is an Array of Strings)

//Fuse all Receivers
var allRecipients = String.Join(",", recipients);

//Create new mail
var mail = new MailMessage(sender, allRecipients, subject, body);

//Create new SmtpClient
var smtpClient = new SmtpClient(hostname, port);

//Try Sending The mail
try
{
    smtpClient.Send(mail);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    Log.Error(String.Format("MailAppointment: Could Not Send Mail. Error = {0}",ex), this);
    return false;
}

Answer 6

To send to multiple recipients I set up my recipient string with a comma as my separator.

string recipient = "foo@bar.com,foo2@bar.com,foo3@bar.com";

Then to add the recipients to the MailMessage object:

string[] emailTo = recipient.Split(',');
for (int i = 0; i < emailTo.GetLength(0); i++)
    mailMessageObject.To.Add(emailTo[i]);