In today’s fast-paced digital world, sending and receiving emails has become a routine task for most individuals and businesses. However, ensuring that these emails are delivered to the recipient’s inbox and not marked as spam can be a challenge. This is where email delivery services like Mailgun and SendGrid step in. In this article, you will gain an understanding of MailGun and SendGrid services, how to set up their options and send emails using C# .NET for successful implementation of your ideas.
- Understanding of MailGun and SendGrid services
- C# .NET API to Create and Send Emails
- Prepare to use MailGun or SendGrid
- Set up email delivery services options
- Send an email via MailGun or SendGrid
Understanding of MailGun and SendGrid services
MailGun is an email delivery service that provides a RESTful API for sending, receiving and tracking emails.
SendGrid is another email delivery service that provides a RESTful API for sending and tracking emails.
MailGun and SendGrid are indispensable solutions to email automation. Small-scale businesses just like big organizations wish to construct reliable communication between their staff members as well as customers and third parties. Irrespective of the traffic volume both of these services can manage your emails quickly and securely.
Use MailGun and SendGrid with their sophisticated spam filtering and email reputation management techniques to be sure that your emails are delivered to your recipients’ inboxes and not marked as spam.
Among the other features and benefits, there is the ability to trace and analyze emails. It means that you can track the number of people who opened your email, clicked on links within your email, or marked your email as spam. This information can help you understand which emails are performing well and which ones need improvement. You can also check the click-through rate (CTR) which refers to the percentage of people who clicked on a link within your email out of the total number of emails delivered.
Overall, by using the email analytics and tracking features provided by MailGun and SendGrid, you can gain insights into the effectiveness of your email campaigns and make data-driven decisions to optimize your email content, design, and targeting to improve engagement and conversions.
C# .NET API to Create and Send Emails
In order to automate the process of creating and sending email messages, we will use Aspose.Email for .NET which is email manipulation and processing API. Aspose.Email for .NET provides a powerful API for working with popular email delivery services. It allows you to send emails using MailGun and SendGrid services, providing a simple and reliable way to deliver your messages. Also, API supports popular email formats including MS Outlook messages such as MSG, EML/EMLX, etc. and mail storage formats such as PST, MBOX, OLM. You can either install the library via NuGet or download its DLL.
PM> Install-Package Aspose.Email
Prepare to use MailGun or SendGrid
To use MailGun or SendGrid, you need to have an account and an API key. You can sign up for a free account at https://www.mailgun.com/ and https://sendgrid.com/ respectively.
Immediately after you have registered at one of these services and got an API key, you can start writing your code.
Set up email delivery services options
Aspose.Email has a unified API, so the first thing is to set up DeliveryServiceOptions depending on which service is going to be used for sending messages.
MailGun client options:
SendGrid client options:
Send an email via MailGun or SendGrid
Having set all the necessary options, you can initialize the client using the DeliveryServiceClientFactory.
And finally, you can prepare an email message and use the Send method of the IDeliveryServiceClient interface to send the email and get a response object that contains information about the status of the request.
Here is an example of how to send an email:
There is also an asynchronous version of the Send method.
Conclusion
In this article, we have learned how to use Aspose.Email for .NET to send emails using two popular delivery services: MailGun and SendGrid. These services provide reliable and scalable email delivery solutions for developers and businesses. They also offer features such as tracking, analytics, templates and webhooks.
Aspose.Email for .NET is a comprehensive set of Email Processing APIs that can be used to build cross-platform applications with the ability to create, manipulate, analyze, convert and transmit emails. You can explore the documentation of Aspose.Email for .NET to learn more about the API.