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Asked: 2026-06-02T16:19:33+00:00

I have a Web Part in SharePoint 2010 that has an Event Receiver that

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I have a Web Part in SharePoint 2010 that has an Event Receiver that fires when an item is added to a list. The Event Receiver is supposed to send a mail but does not.

It works fine when I try without the Event Receiver, how can I send mail using an Event Receiver?

StringDictionary headers = new StringDictionary();
string body = "Hi!";
headers.Add("to", "paulo@paulo.se");
headers.Add("from", "paulosaysno@paulo.se");
headers.Add("subject", "Paulo says hi");
headers.Add("content-type", "text/html");
SPUtility.SendEmail(web, headers, body)

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  1. Editorial Team

    And event receiver runs in the context of an HTTP request. It is known that SPUtility.SendEmail has issues with this. A common practice is to set HttpContext.Current to null while sending the email:

    SPWeb thisWeb = thisSite.RootWeb;
string toField = "someone@microsoft.com";
string subject = "Test Message";
string body = "Message sent from SharePoint";
HttpContext oldContext = HttpContext.Current;
HttpContext.Current = null;

bool success = SPUtility.SendEmail(thisWeb, true, true, toField, subject, body);
HttpContext.Current = oldContext;

    Reference (scroll down to the comments): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.utilities.sputility.sendemail(v=office.12).aspx

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