MailAddress.Host Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Net.Mail

Assembly:

System.Net.Mail.dll

Source:

MailAddress.cs

Gets the host portion of the address specified when this instance was created.

public:
 property System::String ^ Host { System::String ^ get(); };

public string Host { get; }

member this.Host : string

Public ReadOnly Property Host As String

Property Value

String

A String that contains the name of the host computer that accepts email for the User property.

Examples

The following code example displays the destination of an email message.

static void CreateTestMessage3()
{
   MailAddress^ to = gcnew MailAddress( L"jane@contoso.com" );
   MailAddress^ from = gcnew MailAddress( L"ben@contoso.com" );
   MailMessage^ message = gcnew MailMessage( from,to );
   message->Subject = L"Using the new SMTP client.";
   message->Body = L"Using this new feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
   
   // Use the application or machine configuration to get the 
   // host, port, and credentials.
   SmtpClient^ client = gcnew SmtpClient;
   Console::WriteLine( L"Sending an email message to {0} at {1} by using the SMTP host {2}.", to->User, to->Host, client->Host );
   client->Send( message );
}

public static void CreateTestMessage3()
{
    MailAddress to = new MailAddress("jane@contoso.com");
    MailAddress from = new MailAddress("ben@contoso.com");
    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(from, to);
    message.Subject = "Using the new SMTP client.";
    message.Body = @"Using this new feature, you can send an email message from an application very easily.";
    // Use the application or machine configuration to get the
    // host, port, and credentials.
    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
    Console.WriteLine("Sending an email message to {0} at {1} by using the SMTP host={2}.",
        to.User, to.Host, client.Host);
    client.Send(message);
}

Remarks

In a typical email address, the host string includes all information following the "@" sign. For example, in "tsmith@contoso.com", the host is "contoso.com".