Help Sending Email (MailMessage Deserialize Problem)

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Hi burningice, how do we actually use your code?
I cloned your repo and when I tried nothing gets serialized… bear in mind I am using sql server where everything is serialized into json, what I got was only an empty json string ["{}"],

Then I realized this is because everything is private in your SerializeableMailMessage class, so I change everything into public properties.

For example…

//I changed this...
//private readonly string _body;
//into this...        
public string Body { get; set; }

Then it gets serialized into json ‘properly’, however upon deserialization I still get TypeConverter cannot convert from System.String error…

I finally gave up and wrote a simple code like so… (it is obviously does not support everything MailMessage has but it is adequate for my needs at the moment).

[Serializable]
public class SimpleMailMessage
{
	public string From { get; set; }
	public string DisplayName { get; set; }
	public string To { get; set; }
	public string ReplyTo { get; set; }
	public string Subject { get; set; }
	public string Body { get; set; }

	public MailMessage ToMailMessage()
	{
		return new MailMessage
		{
			Body = Body,
			From = new MailAddress(From, DisplayName),
			IsBodyHtml = true,
			Subject = Subject,
			To = { To },				
			ReplyToList = { ReplyTo }
		};
	}
}