Script component to send email

Is there a way I can on any exception, call my .NET code using System.Mail in SSIS 2005 and use my custom code to send emails rather than the Mail component? The mail component sucks, you can't change the look & feel of the email being sent using CSS but if I can fire off my own code to send the email, then that would work great.

To ensure your script task fails on any error, you would create an On Error event handler and add the task in there.

The script task can use just about any .Net component but the system stuff is there already. Try System.Net.Mail for a start and see if that does what you want. If not you may have to get a third-party component, then just add a reference to it. For new components you will need to place them in the framework folder to be able to add a reference e.g. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\

|||So I would just do an OnError then a script component to call my .Net email function? Then just pass through the System variables to the script variable? cool.|||Yes, event handlers are great for this. No more messing about with workflow constraints for this type of package (container) wide handling.