C#•14mo ago

✅ Send automated email.

Hi everyone. I just finished a web scraper assignment that I got from school. I want to build on it and implement a system that lets me take the text that the web scraper generates and send it once a day as an email. What is the best way to do it?

felsokning•10/28/24, 2:05 PM

If you have/use Microsoft 365 (or whatever it's called, now), Microsoft Graph might be viable there.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-sendmail?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

kurumi•10/28/24, 2:07 PM

You need to setup smtp in your application and then create a background job using one of those:
1) hangfire
2) quartz
3) background service

Jimmacle•10/28/24, 2:28 PM

you could also use an email service like sendgrid, it was free for low volumes of email last i checked

Kkurumi You need to setup smtp in your application and then create a background job usin...

MauricioOP•10/28/24, 4:36 PM

What is smtp?

JJimmacle you could also use an email service like sendgrid, it was free for low volumes o...

MauricioOP•10/28/24, 4:36 PM

Is sendgrid like a cloud service for email?

MMauricio What is smtp?

kurumi•10/28/24, 4:36 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol#:~:text=The%20Simple%20Mail%20Transfer%20Protocol,send%20and%20receive%20mail%20messages.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typically use SMTP only for sending messages to a mail server for relaying, and typically submit outgoing ema...

MMauricio Is sendgrid like a cloud service for email?

Jimmacle•10/28/24, 4:36 PM

yes

JJimmacle yes

MauricioOP•10/28/24, 4:37 PM

Ok cool! Thank you very much.

MauricioOP•10/28/24, 10:42 PM

$close

MMauricio $close

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