Simple MailMerge Example

The following example will use a datatable and perform a mail merge. If you have a datatable, datareader, or dataset of email addresses, aspNetEmail can use them as a datasource and perform a mass mailing for you. Typically you will want to do something like this from a Console application or a windows application so you do not have to worry about server script timeouts. This example only sends out a small amount of emails. The datasource is an access database called MailMerge. The database only contains 1 table called 'tblMembers'. You can see a listing of the table below..

As an example, this page will take the data you fill out below and merge it with the information found in the dataset. To match a property of aspNetEmail with a datasource field, surround the name of the field in '##' symbols. In this example, we will set the 'TO' field of the email to ##fldEmail##. fldEmail happens to be the name of the field in the database that contains all of our email addresses. As aspNetEmail sends emails, it will replace ##fldEmail## with the actual value found in the database. See the example below for more information.