Send e-mail from ASP.NET MVC Razor View

AspNetMvcRazorEmail.cs

public class EmailController : Controller
{
    // GET: Default
    [Route("")]
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        return RedirectToAction(nameof(SendEmail), new
        {
            To = "Jon Davis <jon@jondavis.net>",
            From ="Phil Whiffenfarts <philwhiffenfarts@gmail.com>",
            Subject="Yo",
            View="OMG"
        });
    }

    [Route("Send")]
    [ValidateInput(false)]
    public ActionResult SendEmail(string to, string from, string subject, string view, object model = null)
    {
        ViewBag.To = to;
        ViewBag.From = from;
        ViewBag.Subject = subject;
        var body = RenderViewToString(ControllerContext, view, model);
        var message = new MailMessage(from, to, subject, body)
        {
            IsBodyHtml = true
        };
        var smtpClient = new SmtpClient("smtp.west.cox.net");
        smtpClient.Send(message);
        return Content(body, "text/html");
    }

    // source: "Listing 1" at http://www.codemag.com/article/1312081
    static string RenderViewToString(ControllerContext context, string viewPath,
        object model = null, bool partial = false)
    {
        // first find the ViewEngine for this view
        var viewEngineResult = partial 
            ? ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(context, viewPath) 
            : ViewEngines.Engines.FindView(context, viewPath, null);

        if (viewEngineResult == null) throw new FileNotFoundException("View cannot be found.");

        // get the view and attach the model to view data
        var view = viewEngineResult.View;
        context.Controller.ViewData.Model = model;

        using (var sw = new StringWriter())
        {
            var ctx = new ViewContext(context, view, context.Controller.ViewData, context.Controller.TempData, sw);
            view.Render(ctx, sw);
            return sw.ToString();
        }
    }
}