Is there an ASP.NET equivalent of SwiftMailer for PHP?

Question

We are looking at sending some email notifications to about 1100 employees at a time. Each email would contain some personalized information, so sending one email with a huge BCC is out. Looping through and sending one at a time seems dumb.

In some of my homebrew projects I solved this type of problem by using SwiftMailer to send bulk email from PHP. Is there any equivalent, preferably free, for ASP.NET?

Answer 1

Maybe you can simply use SmtpClient class which is already bundled with .Net framework? See

• http://www.aspnettutorials.com/tutorials/email/email-aspnet2-vb.aspx for simple tutorial
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail.smtpclient.aspx - msdn documentation and examples

Answer 2

You can take a look at the examples that come with the mailer libraries from http://www.advancedintellect.com/. It works with background threads and datasets. I did some php work with SwiftMailer previously. The AI products is what I have decided upon for my .Net development work.