In previous section, I introduced how to use asynchronous mode. In this section, I will introduce how to send mass emails with multiple threads in C#.
Based on asynchronous mode, you can create multiple SmtpClient instances in your application and send email in multiple threads. Here is a simple sample demonstrates how to use asynchronous mode to send email in multiple threads.
Note
Remarks: All of samples in this section are based on first section: Send email in a simple C# project. To compile and run the following example codes successfully, please click here to learn how to create the test project and add reference of EASendMail to your project.
The following example codes demonstrate how to send mass email with multiple threads in C#.
Note
To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using EASendMail; //add EASendMail namespace
namespace mysendemail
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] arRcpt = new string[]{"test1@adminsystem.com",
"test2@adminsystem.com",
"test3@adminsystem.com" };
int nRcpt = arRcpt.Length;
SmtpMail[] arMail = new SmtpMail[nRcpt];
SmtpClient[] arSmtp = new SmtpClient[nRcpt];
SmtpClientAsyncResult[] arResult = new SmtpClientAsyncResult[nRcpt];
for (int i = 0; i < nRcpt; i++)
{
arMail[i] = new SmtpMail("TryIt");
arSmtp[i] = new SmtpClient();
}
for (int i = 0; i < nRcpt; i++)
{
SmtpMail oMail = arMail[i];
// Set sender email address
oMail.From = "sender@emailarchitect.net";
// Set recipient email address
oMail.To = arRcpt[i];
// Set email subject
oMail.Subject = "mass email test from c#";
// Set email body
oMail.TextBody = "test from c#, this email is sent to " + arRcpt[i];
// Your smtp server address
SmtpServer oServer = new SmtpServer("smtp.emailarchitect.net");
// User and password for ESMTP authentication
oServer.User = "test@emailarchitect.net";
oServer.Password = "testpassword";
// Most mordern SMTP servers require SSL/TLS connection now.
// ConnectTryTLS means if server supports SSL/TLS, SSL/TLS will be used automatically.
oServer.ConnectType = SmtpConnectType.ConnectTryTLS;
// If your SMTP server uses 587 port
// oServer.Port = 587;
// If your SMTP server requires SSL/TLS connection on 25/587/465 port
// oServer.Port = 25; // 25 or 587 or 465
// oServer.ConnectType = SmtpConnectType.ConnectSSLAuto;
SmtpClient oSmtp = arSmtp[i];
// Submit email to BeginSendMail method and return
// to process another email
arResult[i] = oSmtp.BeginSendMail(oServer, oMail, null, null);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Start to send email to {0} ...",
arRcpt[i] ));
}
// All emails were sent by BeginSendMail Method
// now get result by EndSendMail method
int nSent = 0;
while (nSent < nRcpt)
{
for (int i = 0; i < nRcpt; i++)
{
// this email has been sent
if (arResult[i] == null)
continue;
// wait for specified email ...
if (!arResult[i].AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(10, false))
{
continue;
}
try
{
// this email is finished, using EndSendMail to get result
arSmtp[i].EndSendMail(arResult[i]);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Send email to {0} successfully",
arRcpt[i]));
}
catch (Exception ep)
{
Console.WriteLine(
String.Format("Failed to send email to {0} with error {1}: ",
arRcpt[i], ep.Message));
}
// Set this email result to null, then it won't be processed again
arResult[i] = null;
nSent++;
}
}
}
}
}
I strongly suggest that you have a look at Mass sample project, it uses a thread pool to send mass emails and support throttling control.
Note
To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.
Next Section
At next section I will introduce how to send email using EASendMail Service Queue in ASP.NET/C#.
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