MailMessage.Load cannot load file on Android

Using Aspose.Email v22.6.0 in a Xamarin Forms v5 solution. Debugging from Windows VS 2019 and testing the app on a Samsung Galaxy running Android 11.

When calling MailMessage.Load I get the following error:
{System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load the file ‘I18N, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756’.File name: ‘I18N, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0738eb9f132ed756’ at System.AppDomain.Load (System.String assemblyString, System.Security.Policy.Evidence assemblySecurity, System.Boolean refonly, System.Threading.StackCrawlMark& stackMark) [0x00035] in /Users/builder/jenkins/workspace/archive-mono/2020-02/android/release/mcs/class/corlib/System/AppDomain.cs:817 at System.AppDomain.Load (System.String assemblyString) [0x00002] in /Users/builder/jenkins/workspace/archive-mono/2020-02/android/release/mcs/class/corlib/System/AppDomain.cs:796 at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain.Load(string) at System.Reflection.Assembly.Load (System.String assemblyString) [0x00000] in /Users/builder/jenkins/workspace/archive-mono/2020-02/android/release/mcs/class/corlib/System.Reflection/Assembly.cs:429 at System.Text.EncodingHelper.InvokeI18N (System.String name, System.Object[] args) [0x0002c] in /Users/builder/jenkins/workspace/archive-mono/2020-02/android/release/mcs/class/corlib/System.Text/EncodingHelper.cs:131 }

I’ve tried both calling the method with the a filename and with the file already loaded into a stream, same error each time.

It’s probably worth noting that when I tried to build the Android project it failed and said I needed to reference System.Formats.Asn1 from nuget. I’ve done that and it compiles, but cannot find a way past this FileNotFound error.

Here are the VS specs on the Windows machine:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019
Version 16.11.16
VisualStudio.16.Release/16.11.16+32602.291
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.04084

Installed Version: Professional

Visual C++ 2019 00435-60000-00000-AA550
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VisualStudio.DeviceLog 1.0
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Mono: c633fe9
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ProGuard: Guardsquare/proguard/v7.0.1@912d149
SQLite: xamarin/sqlite/3.35.4@85460d3
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Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Mac SDK 15.2.0.17 (738fde344)
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@louis.s

Please note that FileNotFoundException is thrown when an attempt to access a file that does not exist on disk fails. Please make sure that the file path is correct in your code example.

Please make sure that the file is available for import using MailMessage.Load method.

Hi Tahir,

Yes the file is definitely there, it’s also not the file that I’m loading which causes the FileNotFoundException - if you read the error that I posted it cannot find I18N.

As I also stated I have tried loading the file into a stream first, proving that there is data there for the load method. The issue is that the MailMessage.Load method in Xamarin.Android is trying to load something called I18N and it cannot.

@louis.s

To ensure a timely and accurate response, please attach the following resources here for testing:

  • Your input email file.
  • Please create a Xamarin application (source code without compilation errors) and attach the Visual Studio application here for testing.

As soon as you get these pieces of information ready, we will start investigation into your issue and provide you more information. Thanks for your cooperation.

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