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(Excel) Send Email to Distribution List

Sends the same email to a list of 1000 email addresses in 50 sends where each email has 20 recipients.

Note: Chilkat is not intended nor designed for mass emailing. A solution such as this might be used for a corporate emailing to employees, or an emailing to newsletter subscribers.

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' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim mailman As Chilkat.MailMan
Set mailman = Chilkat.NewMailMan

mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.mymailserver.com"
mailman.SmtpPort = 465
mailman.SmtpSsl = True
mailman.SmtpUsername = "myUsername"
mailman.SmtpPassword = "myPassword"

' Create a new email object
Dim email As Chilkat.Email
Set email = Chilkat.NewEmail
email.Subject = "This is a test"
email.Body = "This is a test"
email.From = "Senders Name <sender@example.com>"
Dim success As Boolean
success = email.AddTo("Subscribers","subscribers@example.com")

Dim bdMime As Chilkat.BinData
Set bdMime = Chilkat.NewBinData
success = mailman.RenderToMimeBd(email,bdMime)

' Load a file containing one email address per line.
Dim distList As Chilkat.StringTable
Set distList = Chilkat.NewStringTable
success = distList.AppendFromFile(1000,"utf-8","qa_data/distList.txt")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.Print distList.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim sbRecipients As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbRecipients = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder


i = 0

szDistList = distList.Count

j = 0
Do While i < szDistList

    ' Build a list of comma-separated recipients.
    If (j > 0) Then
        success = sbRecipients.Append(",")
    End If

    success = sbRecipients.Append(distList.StringAt(i))

    i = i + 1
    j = j + 1

    ' If we have 20 recipients, or we have the final recipient in the final chunk, then send.
    If ((j = 20) Or (i = szDistList)) Then
        success = mailman.SendMimeBd("sender@example.com",sbRecipients.GetAsString(),bdMime)
        If (success <> True) Then
            Debug.Print mailman.LastErrorText
            Exit Sub
        End If

        j = 0
        sbRecipients.Clear 
    End If

Loop

success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print "Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly."
End If

Debug.Print "Email sent to distirbution list."

 

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