Send Email as background Task when called instead of taking you to Email client

Question

Hi

I am using the Email function from Xamarins.Essentials, but it is being called interactively as follows:

What I would like to happen is for the email to run as await background task, and return a code for fail/success:

My code is as per standard xamarin essentials code is as follows:

public async Task SendEmailAsync(string subject, string body, List<string> SendTo)  
        {  
            try  
            {  
                var message = new EmailMessage  
                {  
                    Subject = "Hello",  
                    Body = body,  
                    To = SendTo,  
                    BodyFormat = EmailBodyFormat.PlainText  
                };  
                await Email.ComposeAsync(message);  
            }  
            catch (FeatureNotSupportedException fbsEx)  
            {  
                // Email is not supported on this device  
            }  
            catch (Exception ex)  
            {  
                // Some other exception occurred  
            }  
        }  

I have checked online as well as MS Q&A, and there appears to be no suggestions for this.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello,​

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

Xamarin.Essentials: Email enables an application to open the default email application, Xamarin.Essentials use Platform.AppContext.StartActivity(intent); to open email application

Here is Xamarin.Essentials: Email source code. Please check it

You can try to use System.Net.Mail.MailMessage to send the email by SMTP( SMTP provides a set of protocols that simplifies the communication of email messages between email servers. ) in the background without to open the email application.

You can try to this Example code of System.Net.Mail.MailMessage in your project.

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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