C# SMTP Snippet

I recently provided this simple snippet to a colleague and thought I’d share it out. It includes a way to attach a local file or attach one generated on the fly.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Text;

...

public static void SendEmail()
{
    try
    {
        bool createFile = true;
        string fileName = @"c:\boot.ini";
        MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
        mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
        mail.From = new MailAddress("you@domain.com");
        mail.To.Add(new MailAddress("you@domain.com"));
        mail.Subject = "Subject";
        mail.Body = "Body";
        if (createFile)
        {
            ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
            byte[] bytes = encoding.GetBytes("File Content Blah Blah Blah");
            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(bytes);
            mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(ms, "FileTitle" + ".txt", "text/plain"));
        }
        else
        {
            mail.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(fileName));
        }
        SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
        smtpClient.Host = "SMTPSERVERNAME";
        smtpClient.Send(mail);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {

    }
}