newsletter mass send emails

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Having a little trouble with my Newsletter...

Let me explain: I have a sql table with my emails and nothing else and a sql table where i store the mails after they have been sendt, somehow the mails wont sent, but it will save the mails.

it is all set up in a formview.

C#

protected void btnSendNewsLetter_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        TextBox subject = (TextBox)fvNewsletter.Row.FindControl("txtSubject");
        TextBox body = (TextBox)fvNewsletter.Row.FindControl("txtBody");

        string connection = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["GreenCollaborationConnectionString"].ConnectionString;

        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connection);

        con.Open();

        SqlCommand comm = new SqlCommand("Select Email from MailingList", con);
        SqlDataAdapter da1 = new SqlDataAdapter(comm);
        GreenDataSet ds1 = new GreenDataSet();
        da1.Fill(ds1);
        if(ds1.Tables[0].Rows.Count > 0)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i <= ds1.Tables[0].Rows.Count - 1; i++)
            {
                string email = ds1.Tables[0].Rows[i].ItemArray[0].ToString();
                System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mail = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
                mail.From = new MailAddress("noreply@GreenCollaboration.com", "GreenCollaboration");
                mail.To.Add(email);
                mail.Subject = subject.Text;
                mail.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
                mail.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
                mail.IsBodyHtml = true;
                mail.Body = body.Text;
            }
        }
    }

i hope some1 can help me :)

Posted 8-Nov-12 5:16am

terostar

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Richard C Bishop 8-Nov-12 11:29am

You never send the message.

Check this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en/netfxnetcom/thread/a75533eb-131b-4ff3-a3b2-b6df87c25cc8/

terostar 8-Nov-12 11:31am

Okay, then how do i do that??

Richard C Bishop 8-Nov-12 11:38am

System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("yoursmtphost"); smtp.Send(mail);

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Solution 1

You need to use the SmtpClient class[^] to send the message(s).

Posted 8-Nov-12 5:38am

Richard MacCutchan

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**R. Giskard Reventlov** · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-08T05:40:00

You're missing the bit that does the actual sending. Something like:

C#

using (SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient())
{
    smtp.Host = "SMTPServer";
    smtp.Send(mail);
}

You'll need to later that to suit but it'll get you started.

By the way, you're not really creating th emails very efficiently. It is better to have a method that encapsulates the mailing process and takes, for instance, a collection of To addresses rather than one at a time.