Recipient should not be able to forward or copy the mail sent through SMTP in asp.net

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Need to send an email in asp.net 4.0 through smtp. Recipient should not be able to forward or copy the mail.
How can we do it programmatically?

Posted 22-May-13 23:57pm

Updated 22-May-13 23:58pm

v2

Comments

Thanks7872 23-May-13 6:06am

If you send mail to my gmail account then forward functionality will be controlled by you or google? Think for a while on this.

Richard MacCutchan 23-May-13 6:44am

You cannot prevent a recipient from doing what they want with a mail message.

1 solution

Add a Solution

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

…

Sign in to your account

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) · Answer 1 · 2013-05-23T01:27:00

I am afraid you can't do it.

If you want to get started on Email sending then follow the below articles.

1. Asp.net send email using c#[^].
2. Send Mail / Contact Form using ASP.NET and C#[^]
3. Send through Gmail - follow my answer - sending email to gmail from asp.net[^]

Posted 23-May-13 1:27am