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Delivery Notification through C# 1.1

Asked by: AshleighGreen

I want to receive a delivery notification when sending an email through ASP.NET 1.1 C#.

I can get a read notification using;
testMessage.Headers.Add("disposition-notification-to", txtFrom.Text);

However I cannot get a delivery notification. I have tried;
testMessage.Headers.Add("Return-Receipt-To", txtFrom.Text);
and/or
testMessage.Fields.Add("urn:schemas:mailheader:return-receipt-to", txtFrom.Text);

Neither work.

I am sending from domain 1 to domain 2. They are not linked in anyway. Manually (through outlook) sending an email with request delivery notification selected works perfectly from domain 1 to domain 2. However when I create and send the same email through a windows/ASP.NET application no delivery notification is returned.

I know this is made much simpler in .Net 2.0+. But that isn't an option with this application. Does anyone have a solution to this issue?

System.Web.Mail.MailMessage testMessage = new System.Web.Mail.MailMessage();
				System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.SmtpServer = txtSMTP.Text;
			
				testMessage.To = txtTo.Text;
				testMessage.From = txtFrom.Text;
				testMessage.Subject = txtSubject.Text;
				testMessage.Body = txtBody.Text;
				testMessage.BodyFormat = System.Web.Mail.MailFormat.Text;
				if(chkDelivery.Checked)
				{//Not Working! :-(
					testMessage.Headers.Add("Return-Receipt-To", txtFrom.Text);
					//testMessage.Fields.Add("urn:schemas:mailheader:return-receipt-to", txtFrom.Text);
				}
				if(chkRead.Checked)
				{
					testMessage.Headers.Add("disposition-notification-to", txtFrom.Text);
				}
				System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send(testMessage);

                                  
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2009-02-23 at 15:05:59ID24170323
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C#

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Mail

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Notification

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ASP.NET 1.1

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C# 1.1

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.NET Framework 1.x

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Microsoft Visual C#.Net

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Programming for ASP.NET

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Answers

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 15:27:27ID: 23716855

Reading up on the System.Web.Mail, I noticed it is just a wrapper class for CDOSYS, but I don't see any way to get to the DSNOptions which is what you want to modify.

'    cdoDSNDefault             0       No DSN commands are issued.
'    cdoDSNNever               1       No DSN commands are issued.
'    cdoDSNFailure             2       Return a DSN if delivery fails.
'    cdoDSNSuccess             4       Return a DSN if delivery succeeds.
'    cdoDSNDelay               8       Return a DSN if delivery is delayed.
'    cdoDSNSuccessFailOrDelay  14      Return a DSN if delivery succeeds, fails, or is delayed.

I'll keep digging and see if I can find something useful.

 

by: AshleighGreenPosted on 2009-02-23 at 15:52:40ID: 23717026

Hello aibusinesssolutions,

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I did see a number of articles talking about the DSNOptions when sending through ASP flat. I have, as yet, been unsuccessful in finding a way to modify the DSNOption. I was also considering if it would be better to just access the CDO.Message object directly, and bypass using the System.Web.Mail wrapper, however I haven't found any good examples of how to do that either.

I'm looking forward to the results of your further digging,
-Ashleigh

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 15:54:27ID: 23717039

Here is an example of using the CDO, I'm sure it can be modified to work with asp.net 1.1

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302839

 

by: AshleighGreenPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:01:37ID: 23717087

Hey,

I have seen that example for asp, however am unsure of how to convert that into c#.

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:05:10ID: 23717126

Well, before you do that, did you check the headers of the email in your email client?  

I just tried msg.Headers.Add("Return-Receipt-To", "xxxx@xxxx.com");
and got this, also the checkbox saying a delivery receipt was request was checked.. but I never got a delivery notification.

Return-Receipt-To: <xxxx@xxxx.com>
From: <xxxx@xxxx.com>
To: <xxxx@xxxx.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:00:26 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7000.0
Return-Path: xxxx@xxxx.com
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: 0

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:19:33ID: 23717185

And this is what it looks like when I do it through Outlook, and I DO get a delivery receipt with this.

From: xxxxx <xxxx@xxxx.com>
To: xxxxx <xxxx@xxxx.com>
Return-Receipt-To: <xxxx@xxxx.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:09:14 -0600
Subject: test
Thread-Topic: test
Thread-Index: AcmWFCBDJO3OadtNSAO0hyaRsu9O/w==
Message-ID: <20F36FA53D393246A84B0B2E420DB3876BA5DCFC59@xxxx.com>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: -1
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: <20F36FA53D393246A84B0B2E420DB3876BA5DCFC59@xxxx.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:34:57ID: 23717246

Well I tried adding different headers in, and it doesn't seem to work regardless, I think you're just going to have to use the CDOSYS.

 

by: AshleighGreenPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:37:39ID: 23717257

Hey,

I have checked that. I've also looked at what the headers are like in 2.0 where delivery receipt is an option. Interestingly they look like this;

MIME-Version: 1.0
From: <XXXXX@XXXX>
To: <XXXXX@XXXXXXXXXXX>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:08:23 +1030
Subject: Testing Delivery Receipt 2.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-Path: XXXXX@XXXXXX
Message-ID: <XXXZhCl8aii08N8y0000018c@XXXXXX>

It worked, and there isn't even a Return-Receipt-To.

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:40:44ID: 23717270

Here's something on using CDOSYS in C#.  It's for checking mail in the drop directory, but it'll get you started.

 

by: AshleighGreenPosted on 2009-02-23 at 16:48:06ID: 23717304

Yes, I am coming to that conclusion also. But I am unsure of how to use the CDOSYS in C#.

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 17:03:20ID: 23717367

It's really weird, I got the example working in C#, but when I set the DSNOptions I never get the email.

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 17:19:04ID: 23717444

Here's the code, make sure you reference Microsoft CDO, and add a using CDO;

If you remark out the DSNOptions line, it seems to work fine for me, but when I set it I never get the email.

Message msg = new Message();
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
 
conf.Fields["http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing"].Value = 2;
conf.Fields["http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver"].Value = "mail.domain.com";
conf.Fields.Update();
 
msg.Configuration = conf;
msg.Fields["urn:schemas:mailheader:disposition-notification-to"].Value = "xxx@xxxx.com";
msg.Fields["urn:schemas:mailheader:return-receipt-to"].Value = "xxx@xxxx.com";
msg.To = "xxx@xxxx.com";
msg.From = "xxx@xxxx.com";            
msg.Subject = "test";
msg.TextBody = "test";
msg.DSNOptions = CdoDSNOptions.cdoDSNSuccessFailOrDelay;
msg.Fields.Update();
 
msg.Send();

                                              
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by: AshleighGreenPosted on 2009-02-23 at 17:48:23ID: 31550371

Thanks,

This worked perfectly. It sent the message fine, and the message contained the delivery notification worked. The read notification also worked fine.

As a note to anyone else who may come across this solution. The file to reference was c:\windows\system32\cdosys.dll

Thanks heaps for your help.

 

by: aibusinesssolutionsPosted on 2009-02-23 at 17:56:44ID: 23717663

I was using SMTP authentication with that example, so that may be why it wasn't working for me. Glad I could help.

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