How to send automated e-mails using server-side language

Question

I would like to send an automated e-mail to my clients on their birthday. Is there a library or a good place to find template code for doing something like this? I've used SMTP in the past, but that was for iOS development. I am looking for something using JS or .NET (or maybe even HTML?) to do this. I am only guessing that it will need to be server-side because it needs to run automatically, pulling birthdays from the database.

Has anyone used certain methods that they have found particularly effective? Thanks

Look at the SmtpClient class. It has what you need. There are endless examples on how to use this class. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.smtpclient.aspx — squillman, Jun 24 '13 at 17:42
hopefully this wont apply to you, but just in case, you may want to have a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3905734/how-to-send-100-000-emails-weekly — Daniel, Jun 24 '13 at 17:51
Did you Google this before asking? Googling ".NET sending email" returns several articles about how to send email through .NET APIs. Research before you ask a question. — Karl Anderson, Jun 24 '13 at 18:01

Kevin Kunderman · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-24T18:04:46.900

Below is a simple example of sending mail with .NET'S SMTPClient

using (System.Net.Mail.MailMessage mailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage())
 {

  mailMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress(toAddress ));

  mailMessage.From = new MailAddress(fromAddress, nameToAppearFrom);

  mailMessage.Subject = subject;
  mailMessage.Body = messageText;
  mailMessage.IsBodyHtml = true;

  SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
  smtpClient.EnableSsl = true;

  smtpClient.Send(mailMessage);
}

In order to use this you would also need Using System.Net.Mail ; in your code file and in your web config you would need

  <system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp from="from address">
        <network host="yourt mail server" defaultCredentials="false" port="port#" userName="username" password="password"/>
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
  </system.net>

Alternatively depending on the database engine you are using you could also send mail from the database, this could be in the form of a daily job that gets all people with birthdays and then calls a mail function/stored procedure

How to send automated e-mails using server-side language

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