Sending email from Azure

Question

Hope someone can help  I want to send email from my Azure account  My domain name is configured to work with Azure    I could not find easily on the web how to send an email from an Azure account  There was some mention of SendGrid  but it seems my account does not support it   Can someone please guide me through how to send email from a website hosted in Azure

User · Answer

For people wanting to use the built-in  NET SmtpClient rather than the SendGrid client library  not sure if that was the OP s intent   I couldn t get it to work unless I used apikey as my username and the api key itself as the password as outlined here    lt mailSettings gt       lt smtp gt           lt network host  smtp sendgrid net  port  587  userName  apikey  password   lt your key goes here gt     gt       lt  smtp gt   lt  mailSettings gt

User · Answer

Sending from a third party SMTP isn t restricted by or specific to Azure   Using System Net Mail  create your message  configure your SMTP client  send the email      create the message var msg   new MailMessage    msg From   new MailAddress  info YourWebSiteDomain com     msg To Add strTo    msg Subject   strSubject   msg IsBodyHtml   true   msg Body   strMessage      configure the smtp server var smtp   new SmtpClient  YourSMTPServer     var   new System Net NetworkCredential  YourSMTPServerUserName    YourSMTPServerPassword        send the message smtp Send msg      UPDATE  I added a post on Medium about how to do this with an Azure Function - https   medium com  viperguynaz building-a-serverless-contact-form-f8f0bff46ba9

User · Answer

If you re looking for some ESP alternatives  you should have a look at Mailjet for Microsoft Azure too  As a global email service and infrastructure provider  they enable you to send  deliver and track transactional and marketing emails via their APIs  SMTP Relay or UI all from one single platform  thought both for developers and emails owners   Disclaimer  I   m working at Mailjet as a Developer Evangelist

User · Answer

I would never recommend SendGrid  I took up their free account offer and never managed to send a single email - all got blocked - I spent days trying to resolve it  When I enquired why they got blocked  they told me that free accounts share an ip address and if any account abuses that ip by sending spam - then everyone on the shared ip address gets blocked - totally useless  Also if you use them - do not store your email key in a git public repository as anyone can read the key from there  using a crawler  and use your chargeable account to send bulk emails    A free email service which I ve been using reliably with an Azure website is to use my Gmail  Google mail  account  That account has an option for using it with applications - once you enable that  then email can be sent from your azure website   Pasting in sample send code as the port to use  587  is not obvious     public static void SendMail MailMessage Message                SmtpClient client   new SmtpClient            client Host   EnvironmentSecret Instance SmtpHost     smtp googlemail com         client Port   587          client UseDefaultCredentials   false          client DeliveryMethod   SmtpDeliveryMethod Network          client EnableSsl   true          client Credentials   new NetworkCredential              EnvironmentSecret Instance NetworkCredentialUserName              EnvironmentSecret Instance NetworkCredentialPassword           client Send Message

User · Answer

I know this is an old post but I ve just signed up for Azure and I get 25 000 emails a month for free via SendGrid  These instructions are excellent  I was up and running in minutes   How to Send Email Using SendGrid with Azure     Azure customers can unlock 25 000 free emails each month

User · Answer

A nice way to achieve this  if you have an office 365 account  is to use Office 365 outlook connector integrated with Azure Logic App   Hope this helps someone

[email] Sending email from Azure

Examples related to email

Examples related to azure