Sending E-mails using API

You can send an email programmatically through our API in the following way:

CMS.EmailEngine.EmailMessage em = new CMS.EmailEngine.EmailMessage();
em.EmailFormat = CMS.EmailEngine.EmailFormatEnum.Html;
em.From = "from@mail.com";
em.Recipients = "to@mail.com";
em.Subject = "Subject";
em.Body = "body of email";

CMS.EmailEngine.EmailSender.SendEmail("site_name", em);

Please make sure you have SMTP server specified in site settings for e-mails being sent properly.

There are two basic variations of SendEmail method:

CMS.EmailEngine.EmailSender.SendEmail(em);
//or

CMS.EmailEngine.EmailSender.SendEmail("site_name", em);
//you can use CMS.CMSHelper.CMSContext.CurrentSiteName for site name

The first one sends e-mail using global settings, whilest the second one sends e-mail using settings for specified site. If you use the first option and it doesn't work for you, it can be caused by SMTP settings  specified only for appropriate site - not globally.




See also: How to send an email using the email template


Applies to: Kentico CMS all versions