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Email Distribution List with Mail Merge
VB.NET source code example showing how to send email using a distribution list with mail-merge.
' Create a mailman object for sending email.
Dim mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan()
' Any string passed to UnlockComponent automatically begins a 30-day trial.
Dim success As Boolean
success = mailman.UnlockComponent("Hello World")
If (success <> true) Then
MsgBox(mailman.LastErrorText)
Exit Sub
End If
' Set the SMTP server.
mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.earthlink.net"
' Create an array of email addresses.
' This is where you might load email addresses from a file,
' or load email addresses from a database such as Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc.
Dim array As New Chilkat.StringArray()
array.Unique = True ' Do not allow duplicates in the array.
' Chilkat will be able to parse the full email addresses...
array.Append("Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>")
array.Append("""Chilkat Sales"" <sales@chilkatsoft.com>")
array.Append("<matt@chilkatsoft.com>")
array.Append("joe@chilkatsoft.com")
Dim email As New Chilkat.Email()
' Make this email have both HTML and plain-text alternatives.
' Be sure to use CRLF line endings in plain-text email.
email.AddPlainTextAlternativeBody("Hello CUSTOMER_NAME" + ControlChars.Cr + ControlChars.Lf + "This is a test")
email.AddHtmlAlternativeBody("<html><body>Hello CUSTOMER_NAME<br>This is a test</body></html>")
email.Subject = "CUSTOMER_NAME: This is a test."
email.FromName = "Bob"
email.FromAddress = "bob@chilkatsoft.com"
Dim i As Integer
Dim numEmails As Integer = array.Count
Dim friendlyName As String
For i = 0 To numEmails - 1
email.ClearTo()
' We call AddMultipleTo even though we are only adding a single
' email address. AddMultipleTo parses a comma separated list of
' email addresses, each of which may or may not include the
' friendly name.
email.AddMultipleTo(array.GetString(i))
' Get the friendly name that was in the email address.
friendlyName = email.GetToName(0)
If friendlyName.Length = 0 Then
friendlyName = friendlyName + "Customer"
End If
' Set the replacement pattern. When the email is sent, all occurances of
' CUSTOMER_NAME are replaced with the replacement string.
email.SetReplacePattern("CUSTOMER_NAME", friendlyName)
' The email can have any number of replacement patterns. Simply
' set a replace pattern for each.
' email.SetReplacePattern("PATTERN2","replacement2");
' email.SetReplacePattern("PATTERN3","replacement3");
Dim sendQueued As Boolean = True
' One option is to send the email in the background using the SMTPQ service:
If sendQueued Then
' Sending the email using SMTPQ allows for emails to be sent by multiple
' threads simultaneously by the SMTPQ process. The email sending will
' also survive system reboots / crashes because it will resume when the
' service restarts on system startup.
If Not mailman.SendQ(email) Then
' We could send the email in-process:
MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
Exit For
End If
Else
' Or... the mail can be sent in-process.
If Not mailman.SendEmail(email) Then
' We could send the email in-process:
MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
Exit For
End If
End If
Next i
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