{"id":1291,"date":"2010-10-25T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2010-10-25T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T13:41:38","slug":"send-email-using-fluent-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/send-email-using-fluent-interface","title":{"rendered":"Send email using fluent interface"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\/\/ C# version\n\nusing Fluent = Limilabs.Mail.Fluent;\n\nFluent.Mail.Html(@"Html with an image: <img src=""cid:lena"" \/>")\n  .AddVisual(@"c:lena.jpeg").SetContentId("lena")\n  .AddAttachment(@"c:tmp.doc").SetFileName("document.doc")\n  .To("to@mail.com")\n  .From("from@mail.com")\n  .Subject("Subject")\n  .UsingNewSmtp()\n  .Server("smtp.example.org")\n  .WithSSL()\n  .WithCredentials("user", "password")\n  .Send();\n<\/pre>\n
\n' VB.NET version\n\nImports Fluent = Limilabs.Mail.Fluent;\n\nFluent.Mail.Html("Html with an image: <img src=""cid:lena"" \/>") _\n  .AddVisual("c:lena.jpeg").SetContentId("lena") _\n  .AddAttachment("c:tmp.doc").SetFileName("document.doc") _\n  .[To]("to@mail.com") _\n  .From("from@mail.com") _\n  .Subject("Subject") _\n  .UsingNewSmtp() _\n  .Server("smtp.example.org") _\n  .WithSSL() _\n  .WithCredentials("user", "password") _\n  .Send()\n<\/pre>\n
Fluent interface for creating and sending emails was added to Mail.dll as an additional feature.<\/p>\n
You can still use MailBuilder class to create emails.
\nNote that error handling code was removed for simplicity, you should use try…catch block when sending.<\/p>\n
If your server does not require authentication or SSL<\/strong> simply skip WithSSL and WithCredentials methods:<\/p>\n
\n\/\/ C# version\n\nMail.Text("Hi there")\n    .Subject("Hi")\n    .To("to@mail.com")\n    .From("from@example.org")\n    .UsingNewSmtp()\n    .Server("smtp.example.org")\n    .Send();\n<\/pre>\n
\n' VB.NET version\n\nMail.Text("Hi there") _\n  .Subject("Hi") _\n  .[To]("to@mail.com") _\n  .From("from@example.org") _\n  .UsingNewSmtp() _\n  .Server("smtp.example.org") _\n  .Send()\n<\/pre>\n
Same code using MailBuilder:<\/p>\n
\n\/\/ C# version\n\nMailBuilder builder = new MailBuilder();\nbuilder.Text = "Hi there";\nbuilder.Subject = "Hi";\nbuilder.To.Add(new MailBox("to@mail.com"));\nbuilder.From.Add(new MailBox("from@example.org"));\nIMail email= builder.Create();\n\nusing(Smtp smtp = new Smtp())\n{\n    smtp.Connect("smtp.example.org"); \/\/ or ConnectSSL\n    \/\/ smtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password");\n    smtp.SendMessage(email);\n    smtp.Close();\n}\n<\/pre>\n
\n' VB.NET version\n\nDim builder As New MailBuilder()\nbuilder.Text = "Hi there"\nbuilder.Subject = "Hi"\nbuilder.[To].Add(New MailBox("to@mail.com"))\nbuilder.From.Add(New MailBox("from@example.org"))\n\nDim emailAs IMail = builder.Create()\n\nUsing smtp As New Smtp()\n    smtp.Connect("smtp.example.org") ' or ConnectSSL\n    ' smtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password")\n    smtp.SendMessage(email)\n    smtp.Close()\nEnd Using\n<\/pre>\n
You can also reuse existing Smtp connection<\/strong> to send multiple emails using fluent interface:<\/p>\n
\n\/\/ C# version\n\nusing(Smtp smtp = new Smtp())\n{\n    smtp.Connect("smtp.example.org"); \/\/ or ConnectSSL\n    smtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password");\n\n    Mail.Text("Hi there")\n        .Subject("Hi")\n        .To("to@mail.com")\n        .From("from@example.org")\n        .Send(smtp);\n\n    \/\/ Send more emails here...\n\n    smtp.Close();\n}\n<\/pre>\n
\n' VB.NET version\n\nUsing smtp As New Smtp()\n\tsmtp.Connect("smtp.example.org") ' or ConnectSSL\n\tsmtp.UseBestLogin("user", "password")\n\n\tMail.Text("Hi there") _\n          .Subject("Hi") _\n          .[To]("to@mail.com") _\n          .From("from@example.org") _\n          .Send(smtp)\n\n\t' Send more emails here...\n\n\tsmtp.Close()\nEnd Using\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\/\/ C# version using Fluent = Limilabs.Mail.Fluent; Fluent.Mail.Html(@"Html with an image: <img src=""cid:lena"" \/>") .AddVisual(@"c:lena.jpeg").SetContentId("lena") .AddAttachment(@"c:tmp.doc").SetFileName("document.doc") .To("to@mail.com") .From("from@mail.com") .Subject("Subject") .UsingNewSmtp() .Server("smtp.example.org") .WithSSL() .WithCredentials("user", "password") .Send(); ‘ VB.NET version Imports Fluent = Limilabs.Mail.Fluent; Fluent.Mail.Html("Html with an image: <img src=""cid:lena"" \/>") _ .AddVisual("c:lena.jpeg").SetContentId("lena") _ .AddAttachment("c:tmp.doc").SetFileName("document.doc") _ .[To]("to@mail.com") _ .From("from@mail.com") _ .Subject("Subject") _ .UsingNewSmtp() _ .Server("smtp.example.org") _ .WithSSL() […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,33,50,57],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-dll","tag-c","tag-email-component","tag-smtp","tag-vb-net"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limilabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}