Today I am going to explore options we have to send emails in SharePoint. I find it very interesting that there are a couple of ways to send emails. Sending notifications is a very frequently asked feature from the clients in any application and SharePoint has an out of box feature called alerts.
MSDN - Alerts Details
Option 1:
Store the SMTP server address in the web.config and can utilize the send email function as below:
This ensures that you get the advantages of.NET-style mail delivery while keeping your configuration at one place in your Central Administration.
MSDN - Alerts Details
Option 1:
Store the SMTP server address in the web.config and can utilize the send email function as below:
This ensures that you get the advantages of.NET-style mail delivery while keeping your configuration at one place in your Central Administration.
using System;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Net.Mail;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace Send_Email.Send_Email
{
public partial class Send_EmailUserControl : UserControl
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
bool sentemail = SendMail("Hello", "Test Body", false, "pallavi.sharma@xyz.com", "pallavi.sharma@neudesic.com", "", "");
}
public static bool SendMail(string Subject, string Body, bool IsBodyHtml, string From, string To, string Cc, string Bcc)
{
bool mailSent = false;
try
{
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
smtpClient.Host = SPContext.Current.Site.WebApplication.
OutboundMailServiceInstance.Server.Address;
MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage(From, To, Subject, Body);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Cc))
{
MailAddress CCAddress = new MailAddress(Cc);
mailMessage.CC.Add(CCAddress);
}
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Bcc))
{
MailAddress BCCAddress = new MailAddress(Bcc);
mailMessage.Bcc.Add(BCCAddress);
}
mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = IsBodyHtml;
smtpClient.Send(mailMessage);
mailSent = true;
}
catch (Exception) { return mailSent; }
return mailSent;
}
}
}
If the SharePoint context is not available utilize the SPWebApplication reference from a new SPSite object :
public static string GetSharePointMailService(string mysite)
{
string address;
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(mysite))
{
address = site.WebApplication.OutboundMailServiceInstance.Server.Address;
}
return address;
}
Option 2 :
Utilize the embedded SharePoint SendEmail. This has reduced capabilities, but is as straightforward as possible, and is the preferred approach if you simply want to send e-mail.
SPUtility.SendEmail(web, useHtml, htmlEncode, to, subject, htmlBody)
Option 3 :
Sending E-Mail from a WCF Service
try
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“http://server name”))
{
SPWeb myWeb = site.RootWeb;
{
string to = “someone@Someone.com”;
string subject = “My Subject Message”;
string body = “My Message Body”;
HttpContext curCtx = HttpContext.Current;
HttpContext.Current = null;
bool success = SPUtility.SendEmail(myWeb, true, true, to, subject, body);
HttpContext.Current = curCtx;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{// handle error here!!!}
In office 365, you have ability to use SANDBOX solutions so the above classes are not supported. I used this trick to send email in the online environment using Sharepoint designer workflows
Option 4:
Use SP Designer to create email notifications. Quick and Easy and can be conditional too.
You could also create a reusable workflow for a content Type and associate with any list which contains that content type.
