Sending Mail from Gmail and Save the file in PDF Format

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Gowtham manju15y ago
can u please help me in solving the problem such as when a word document is being uploaded in gmail or some other mail automatically it must be converted in to pdf on the receiver side that too in my aspx page ....
- Vijay Gill15y ago
  @Gawtham: can you please re-phrase your requirement? I could not understand your last post.
- Vijay Gill15y agoedited
  Hi Gawtham, I gave an example of third party library which would help you to get the job done. I am sorry I cannot send any code now because I used that library in my previous company and I do not have the libraries now to create an example. If you go to the site I suggested, you can find trial version of the component and also some examples.
- Vijay Gill15y ago
  Hi Gawtham, for that you will have to use third party libraries like from http://www.e-iceblue.com/. I have used it in the past. Pricey these lobraries may seem, but they do save you a lot of time. There is no point in writing things from scratch. Hope that helps. Vijay
vishal patel15y agoedited
Its still not a pdf file though its extention is .pdf. Its treated as a file what ever formate in the explorer... You cant say it creates a pdf file properly.
vishal patel15y ago
protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { StreamWriter StreamWriter1 = new StreamWriter(Server.MapPath("Tusar.pdf")); StreamWriter1.WriteLine(TextBox4.Text); StreamWriter1.WriteLine("Line1.\r\nLine2."); StreamWriter1.Close(); TextBox5_Load(); } is not working properly....
- Vijay Gill15y ago
  Vishal, do not try to get this crap code working as it does not actually save the contents in PDF format. I asked the author in my previous question because I do not see any coding related to storing text in PDF format. This useless piece of code just saves text in a file with extension .pdf BUT IT IS STILL A TEXT FILE! I would suggest looking up for examples on libraries like iTextSharp / PDFSharp etc as I have used them in my various projects. Vijay
- vishal patel15y ago
  Thank you so much Vijay... Thanks a lot
Vijay Gill15y ago
Are you sure it saves the file in PDF format? What library are you using for that? Vijay
- Tusarkanta Guru15y ago
  see solution explorer, the is one file showing .pdf format.

This is an article for sending Mail from Gmail and Save the file in PDF Format and shown PDF File in Solution Explore. "Message seen after SAVE" will work after the message is saved in PDF.

Code for Click Events for SEND Button And SAVE Button:

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
TextBox5.Text = "";
if (!IsPostBack)
{
TextBox4_Load();
}
}

private void TextBox4_Load()
{
//throw new NotImplementedException();
if (File.Exists(Server.MapPath("Tusar.pdf")))
{
//StreamReader StreamReader1 = new StreamReader(Server.MapPath("test.txt"));
StreamReader StreamReader1 = new StreamReader(Server.MapPath("Tusar.pdf"));
TextBox4.Text = StreamReader1.ReadToEnd();
StreamReader1.Close();

}
else
{
TextBox4.Text = "New file.";
}
}
void TextBox5_Load()
{
if (File.Exists(Server.MapPath("Tusar.pdf")))
{
StreamReader StreamReader1 = new StreamReader(Server.MapPath("Tusar.pdf"));
TextBox5.Text = StreamReader1.ReadToEnd();
StreamReader1.Close();
}
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage MyMailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage(TextBox1.Text, TextBox2.Text, TextBox3.Text, "");
MyMailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;
MyMailMessage.Body = TextBox4.Text;
provide Authentication Details need to be ed when sending email from gmail
System.Net.NetworkCredential mailAuthentication = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(TextBox1.Text, "word");//Sender word

Smtp Mail server of Gmail is "smpt.gmail.com" and it uses port no. 587
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient mailClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com", 587);
Enable SSL

mailClient.EnableSsl = true;
mailClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
mailClient.Credentials = mailAuthentication;
mailClient.Send(MyMailMessage); }

protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
StreamWriter StreamWriter1 = new StreamWriter(Server.MapPath("Tusar.pdf"));
StreamWriter1.WriteLine(TextBox4.Text);
StreamWriter1.WriteLine("Line1.\r\nLine2.");
StreamWriter1.Close();
TextBox5_Load();
}
protected void TextBox5_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}
protected void TextBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}
}