general question about static classes

[chrisma]

What I've created seems to work fine, but I'm wondering if it's ok to do it this way... basically I'm using a static method in a static class to set some default properties for a MailMessage.

In another method I create two (or more) MailMessages using that static method. Since CreateMessage returns a new MailMessage, does that actually create separate instances, or do all MailMessages created this way refer to the same object because it's a static method (I recall from my C# class only one copy of a static class/method exists)? It all seems to work fine, but what I remember from my C# class makes me think this isn't proper.

public static class Email 
{
private static MailMessage CreateMessage()
{
  
MailMessage mm = new MailMessage()
  //set some properties for mm
  return mm;
}

public static void New(int issueID)
{
  
//create first email
  MailMessage mailToTech = CreateMessage();
  //set whatever other properties for mailToTech and send mailToTech
  mailToTech.Dispose();

 //create another email
  MailMessage mailToUser = CreateMessage();
  //set whatever properties and send mailToUser
  mailToUser.Dispose();
}
}