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Quickstart: How to send an email using Azure Communication Services

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This quickstart describes how to send email using our Email SDKs.

Get started with Azure Communication Services by using the Communication Services Try Email to send Email messages.

Prerequisites

Completing this quick start incurs a small cost of a few USD cents or less in your Azure account.

Sending an Email using Try Email

Try Email helps you kick-start sending emails to the desired recipients using Azure Communication Services, as well as verifying the configuration for your application to send email. It also helps to jump-start your email notification development with the code snippet in your preferred choice of language.

To send a message to a recipient, and to specify the message subject and body,

  1. From the overview page of a provisioned Azure Communication Service resource, click Try Email on the left navigation panel under Email.

    Screenshot that shows the left navigation panel for Try Email.

  2. Select one of the verified domains from drop-down.

    Screenshot that shows the verified domain from drop-down.

  3. Compose the email to send

    • Enter Recipient email address
    • Enter Subject
    • Write the Email Body

    Screenshot that shows how to filter and select one of the verified email domains to connect.

  4. Click Send

    Screenshot that shows one of the verified email domains is now connected.

  5. Email Sent Successfully.

    Screenshot that shows successful email send.

  6. You can now also copy the sample Code Snippet to send an email to use in your sample project to send notifications.

    • Select Language of your choice

    • Click Insert my Connection

    • Click Copy

      Screenshot that shows code snippet to send email.

  7. Email Code Snippet is now ready to use in your notification project.

Get started with Azure Communication Services by using the Azure CLI communication extension to send Email messages.

Completing this quick start incurs a small cost of a few USD cents or less in your Azure account.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite check

  • In a terminal or command window, run the az --version command to check that Azure CLI and the communication extension are installed.
  • To view the domains verified with your Email Communication Services resource, sign in to the Azure portal. Locate your Email Communication Services resource and open the Provision domains tab from the left navigation pane.

Setting up

Add the extension

Add the Azure Communication Services extension for Azure CLI by using the az extension command.

az extension add --name communication

Sign in to Azure CLI

You need to sign in to Azure CLI. You can sign in running the az login command from the terminal and providing your credentials.

Store your connection string in an environment variable

You can configure the AZURE_COMMUNICATION_CONNECTION_STRING environment variable to use Azure CLI keys operations without having to use --connection_string to pass in the connection string. To configure an environment variable, open a console window and select your operating system from the below tabs. Replace <connectionString> with your actual connection string.

Note

Don't store your connection string as an unencrypted environment variable for production environments. This is meant for testing purposes only. For production environments, you should generate new connection strings. We encourage you to encrypt connection strings and change them regularly.

setx AZURE_COMMUNICATION_CONNECTION_STRING "<yourConnectionString>"

After you add the environment variable, you may need to restart any running programs that will need to read the environment variable, including the console window. For example, if you're using Visual Studio as your editor, restart Visual Studio before running the example.

Send an email message

az communication email send
	--connection-string "yourConnectionString"
	--sender "<donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net>"
	--to "<emailalias@emaildomain.com>"
	--subject "Welcome to Azure Communication Services Email" --text "This email message is sent from Azure Communication Services Email using Azure CLI."

Make these replacements in the code:

  • Replace <yourConnectionString> with your connection string.
  • Replace <emailalias@emaildomain.com> with the email address you would like to send a message to.
  • Replace <donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net> with the MailFrom address of your verified domain.

The above command also performs a polling on the messageId and returns the status of the email delivery. The status can be one of the following:

Status Name Description
NotStarted We're not sending this status from our service at this time.
Running The email send operation is currently in progress and being processed.
Succeeded The email send operation has completed without error and the email is out for delivery. Any detailed status about the email delivery beyond this stage can be obtained either through Azure Monitor or through Azure Event Grid. Learn how to subscribe to email events
Failed The email send operation wasn't successful and encountered an error. The email wasn't sent. The result contains an error object with more details on the reason for failure.

Optional parameters

The following optional parameters are available in Azure CLI.

  • --html can be used instead of --text for html email body.

  • --importance sets the importance type for the email. Known values are: high, normal, and low. Default is normal.

  • --to sets the list of email recipients.

  • --cc sets carbon copy email addresses.

  • --bcc sets blind carbon copy email addresses.

  • --reply-to sets Reply-To email address.

  • --disable-tracking indicates whether user engagement tracking should be disabled for this request.

  • --attachments sets the list of email attachments.

  • --attachment-types sets the list of email attachment types, in the same order of attachments.

Also, you can use a list of recipients with --cc and --bcc similar to --to. There needs to be at least one recipient in --to or --cc or --bcc.

Get started with Azure Communication Services by using the Communication Services C# Email client library to send Email messages.

Tip

Jump-start your email sending experience with Azure Communication Services by skipping straight to the Basic Email Sending and Advanced Email Sending sample code on GitHub.

Understanding the Email Object model

The following classes and interfaces handle some of the major features of the Azure Communication Services Email Client library for C#.

Name Description
EmailAddress This class contains an email address and an option for a display name.
EmailAttachment This class creates an email attachment by accepting a unique ID, email attachment MIME type string, binary data for content, and an optional content ID to define it as an inline attachment.
EmailClient This class is needed for all email functionality. You instantiate it with your connection string and use it to send email messages.
EmailClientOptions This class can be added to the EmailClient instantiation to target a specific API version.
EmailContent This class contains the subject and the body of the email message. You have to specify at least one of PlainText or Html content
EmailCustomHeader This class allows for the addition of a name and value pair for a custom header. Email importance can also be specified through these headers using the header name 'x-priority' or 'x-msmail-priority'
EmailMessage This class combines the sender, content, and recipients. Custom headers, attachments, and reply-to email addresses can optionally be added, as well.
EmailRecipients This class holds lists of EmailAddress objects for recipients of the email message, including optional lists for CC & BCC recipients.
EmailSendOperation This class represents the asynchronous email send operation and is returned from email send api call.
EmailSendResult This class holds the results of the email send operation. It has an operation ID, operation status and error object (when applicable).

EmailSendResult returns the following status on the email operation performed.

Status Description
NotStarted We're not sending this status from our service at this time.
Running The email send operation is currently in progress and being processed.
Succeeded The email send operation has completed without error and the email is out for delivery. Any detailed status about the email delivery beyond this stage can be obtained either through Azure Monitor or through Azure Event Grid. Learn how to subscribe to email events
Failed The email send operation wasn't successful and encountered an error. The email wasn't sent. The result contains an error object with more details on the reason for failure.

Prerequisites

Completing this quick start incurs a small cost of a few USD cents or less in your Azure account.

Note

We can also send an email from our own verified domain. Add custom verified domains to Email Communication Service.

Prerequisite check

  • In a terminal or command window, run the dotnet command to check that the .NET client library is installed.
  • To view the subdomains associated with your Email Communication Services resource, sign in to the Azure portal, locate your Email Communication Services resource and open the Provision domains tab from the left navigation pane.

Create a new C# application

In a console window (such as cmd, PowerShell, or Bash), use the dotnet new command to create a new console app with the name EmailQuickstart. This command creates a simple "Hello World" C# project with a single source file: Program.cs.

dotnet new console -o EmailQuickstart

Change your directory to the newly created app folder and use the dotnet build command to compile your application.

cd EmailQuickstart
dotnet build

Install the package

While still in the application directory, install the Azure Communication Services Email client library for .NET package by using the dotnet add package command.

dotnet add package Azure.Communication.Email

Creating the email client with authentication

Open Program.cs and replace the existing code with the following to add using directives for including the Azure.Communication.Email namespace and a starting point for execution for your program.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Azure;
using Azure.Communication.Email;

namespace SendEmail
{
  internal class Program
  {
    static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {

    }
  }
}

There are a few different options available for authenticating an email client:

Open Program.cs in a text editor and replace the body of the Main method with code to initialize an EmailClient with your connection string. The following code retrieves the connection string for the resource from an environment variable named COMMUNICATION_SERVICES_CONNECTION_STRING. Learn how to manage your resource's connection string.

// This code demonstrates how to fetch your connection string
// from an environment variable.
string connectionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMMUNICATION_SERVICES_CONNECTION_STRING");
EmailClient emailClient = new EmailClient(connectionString);

Note

It is recommended to use the manual polling (Send Email with asynchronous status polling) to send email.

Basic email sending

Construct your email message

To send an email message, you need to:

  • Define the email subject and body.
  • Define your Sender Address. Construct your email message with your Sender information you get your MailFrom address from your verified domain.
  • Define the Recipient Address.
  • Call the SendAsync method. Add this code to the end of Main method in Program.cs:

Replace with your domain details and modify the content, recipient details as required


//Replace with your domain and modify the content, recipient details as required

var subject = "Welcome to Azure Communication Service Email APIs.";
var htmlContent = "<html><body><h1>Quick send email test</h1><br/><h4>This email message is sent from Azure Communication Service Email.</h4><p>This mail was sent using .NET SDK!!</p></body></html>";
var sender = "donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net";
var recipient = "emailalias@contoso.com";

Send and get the email send status

When you call SendAsync with Azure.WaitUntil.Started, your method returns back after starting the operation. The method returns EmailSendOperation object. You can call UpdateStatusAsync method to refresh the email operation status.

The returned EmailSendOperation object contains an EmailSendStatus object that contains:

  • Current status of the Email Send operation.
  • An error object with failure details if the current status is in a failed state.

/// Send the email message with WaitUntil.Started
EmailSendOperation emailSendOperation = await emailClient.SendAsync(
    Azure.WaitUntil.Started,
    sender,
    recipient,
    subject,
    htmlContent);

/// Call UpdateStatus on the email send operation to poll for the status
/// manually.
try
{
    while (true)
    {
        await emailSendOperation.UpdateStatusAsync();
        if (emailSendOperation.HasCompleted)
        {
            break;
        }
        await Task.Delay(100);
    }

    if (emailSendOperation.HasValue)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Email queued for delivery. Status = {emailSendOperation.Value.Status}");
    }
}
catch (RequestFailedException ex)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Email send failed with Code = {ex.ErrorCode} and Message = {ex.Message}");
}

/// Get the OperationId so that it can be used for tracking the message for troubleshooting
string operationId = emailSendOperation.Id;
Console.WriteLine($"Email operation id = {operationId}");

Run the application from your application directory with the dotnet run command.

dotnet run

Sample code

You can download the sample app from GitHub

Get started with Azure Communication Services by using the Communication Services JS Email client library to send Email messages.

Tip

Jump-start your email sending experience with Azure Communication Services by skipping straight to the Basic Email Sending and Advanced Email Sending sample code on GitHub.

Understanding the email object model

The following classes and interfaces handle some of the major features of the Azure Communication Services Email Client library for JavaScript.

Name Description
EmailAddress This class contains an email address and an option for a display name.
EmailAttachment This class creates an email attachment by accepting a unique ID, email attachment MIME type string, binary data for content, and an optional Content ID to define it as an inline attachment.
EmailClient This class is needed for all email functionality. You instantiate it with your connection string and use it to send email messages.
EmailClientOptions This class can be added to the EmailClient instantiation to target a specific API version.
EmailContent This class contains the subject and the body of the email message. You have to specify at least one of PlainText or Html content.
EmailCustomHeader This class allows for the addition of a name and value pair for a custom header. Email importance can also be specified through these headers using the header name 'x-priority' or 'x-msmail-priority'.
EmailMessage This class combines the sender, content, and recipients. Custom headers, attachments, and reply-to email addresses can optionally be added, as well.
EmailRecipients This class holds lists of EmailAddress objects for recipients of the email message, including optional lists for CC & BCC recipients.
EmailSendResult This class holds the results of the email send operation. It has an operation ID, operation status and error object (when applicable).
EmailSendStatus This class represents the set of statuses of an email send operation.

EmailSendResult returns the following status on the email operation performed.

Status Name Description
isStarted Returns true if the email send operation is currently in progress and being processed.
isCompleted Returns true if the email send operation has completed without error and the email is out for delivery. Any detailed status about the email delivery beyond this stage can be obtained either through Azure Monitor or through Azure Event Grid. Learn how to subscribe to email events
result Property that exists if the email send operation has concluded.
error Property that exists if the email send operation wasn't successful and encountered an error. The email wasn't sent. The result contains an error object with more details on the reason for failure.

Prerequisites

Completing this quick start incurs a small cost of a few USD cents or less in your Azure account.

Note

We can also send an email from our own verified domain. Add custom verified domains to Email Communication Service.

Prerequisite check

  • In a terminal or command window, run node --version to check that Node.js is installed.
  • To view the domains verified with your Email Communication Services resource, sign in to the Azure portal, locate your Email Communication Services resource and open the Provision domains tab from the left navigation pane.

Set up the application environment

Create a new Node.js Application

First, open your terminal or command window, create a new directory for your app, and navigate to it.

mkdir email-quickstart && cd email-quickstart

Run npm init -y to create a package.json file with default settings.

npm init -y

Use a text editor to create a file called send-email.js in the project root directory. Change the "main" property in package.json to "send-email.js". The following section demonstrates how to add the source code for this quickstart to the newly created file.

Install the package

Use the npm install command to install the Azure Communication Services Email client library for JavaScript.

npm install @azure/communication-email --save

The --save option lists the library as a dependency in your package.json file.

Creating the email client with authentication

There are a few different options available for authenticating an email client:

Import the EmailClient from the client library and instantiate it with your connection string.

The following code retrieves the connection string for the resource from an environment variable named COMMUNICATION_SERVICES_CONNECTION_STRING using the dotenv package. Use the npm install command to install the dotenv package. Learn how to manage your resource's connection string.

npm install dotenv

Add the following code to send-email.js:

const { EmailClient } = require("@azure/communication-email");
require("dotenv").config();

// This code demonstrates how to fetch your connection string
// from an environment variable.
const connectionString = process.env['COMMUNICATION_SERVICES_CONNECTION_STRING'];
const emailClient = new EmailClient(connectionString);

For simplicity, this quickstart uses connection strings, but in production environments, we recommend using service principals.

Basic email sending

Send an email message

To send an email message, call the beginSend function from the EmailClient. This method returns a poller that checks on the status of the operation and retrieves the result once it's finished.


async function main() {
  const POLLER_WAIT_TIME = 10
  try {
    const message = {
      senderAddress: "<donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net>",
      content: {
        subject: "Welcome to Azure Communication Services Email",
        plainText: "This email message is sent from Azure Communication Services Email using the JavaScript SDK.",
      },
      recipients: {
        to: [
          {
            address: "<emailalias@emaildomain.com>",
            displayName: "Customer Name",
          },
        ],
      },
    };

    const poller = await emailClient.beginSend(message);

    if (!poller.getOperationState().isStarted) {
      throw "Poller was not started."
    }

    let timeElapsed = 0;
    while(!poller.isDone()) {
      poller.poll();
      console.log("Email send polling in progress");

      await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, POLLER_WAIT_TIME * 1000));
      timeElapsed += 10;

      if(timeElapsed > 18 * POLLER_WAIT_TIME) {
        throw "Polling timed out.";
      }
    }

    if(poller.getResult().status === KnownEmailSendStatus.Succeeded) {
      console.log(`Successfully sent the email (operation id: ${poller.getResult().id})`);
    }
    else {
      throw poller.getResult().error;
    }
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
}

main();

Make these replacements in the code:

  • Replace <emailalias@emaildomain.com> with the email address you would like to send a message to.
  • Replace <donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net> with the MailFrom address of your verified domain.

Run the code

use the node command to run the code you added to the send-email.js file.

node ./send-email.js

Sample code

You can download the sample app from GitHub

Get started with Azure Communication Services by using the Communication Services Java Email SDK to send Email messages.

Tip

Jump-start your email sending experience with Azure Communication Services by skipping straight to the Basic Email Sending and Advanced Email Sending sample code on GitHub.

Understanding the email object model

The following classes and interfaces handle some of the major features of the Azure Communication Services Email SDK for Python.

Name Description
EmailAddress This class contains an email address and an option for a display name.
EmailAttachment This interface creates an email attachment by accepting a unique ID, email attachment MIME type string, a string of content bytes, and an optional content ID to define it as an inline attachment.
EmailClient This class is needed for all email functionality. You instantiate it with your connection string and use it to send email messages.
EmailMessage This class combines the sender, content, and recipients. Custom headers, attachments, and reply-to email addresses can optionally be added, as well.
EmailSendResult This class holds the results of the email send operation. It has an operation ID, operation status and error object (when applicable).
EmailSendStatus This class represents the set of statuses of an email send operation.

EmailSendResult returns the following status on the email operation performed.

Status Name Description
NOT_STARTED We're not sending this status from our service at this time.
IN_PROGRESS The email send operation is currently in progress and being processed.
SUCCESSFULLY_COMPLETED The email send operation has completed without error and the email is out for delivery. Any detailed status about the email delivery beyond this stage can be obtained either through Azure Monitor or through Azure Event Grid. Learn how to subscribe to email events
FAILED The email send operation wasn't successful and encountered an error. The email wasn't sent. The result contains an error object with more details on the reason for failure.

Prerequisites

Completing this quickstart incurs a small cost of a few USD cents or less in your Azure account.

Note

We can also send an email from our own verified domain Add custom verified domains to Email Communication Service.

Prerequisite check

  • In a terminal or command window, run mvn -v to check that Maven is installed.
  • To view the domains verified with your Email Communication Services resource, sign in to the Azure portal. Locate your Email Communication Services resource and open the Provision domains tab from the left navigation pane.

Set up the application environment

To set up an environment for sending emails, take the steps in the following sections.

Create a new Java application

Open your terminal or command window and navigate to the directory where you would like to create your Java application. Run the following command to generate the Java project from the maven-archetype-quickstart template.

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId="maven-archetype-quickstart" -DarchetypeGroupId="org.apache.maven.archetypes" -DarchetypeVersion="1.4" -DgroupId="com.communication.quickstart" -DartifactId="communication-quickstart"

The generate goal creates a directory with the same name as the artifactId value. Under this directory, the src/main/java directory contains the project source code, the src/test/java directory contains the test source, and the pom.xml file is the project's Project Object Model (POM).

Install the package

Open the pom.xml file in your text editor. Add the following dependency element to the group of dependencies.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
    <artifactId>azure-communication-email</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-beta.2</version>
</dependency>

Set up the app framework

Open /src/main/java/com/communication/quickstart/App.java in a text editor, add import directives, and remove the System.out.println("Hello world!"); statement:

package com.communication.quickstart;

import com.azure.communication.email.models.*;
import com.azure.communication.email.*;
import com.azure.core.util.polling.*;

public class App
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        // Quickstart code goes here.
    }
}

Creating the email client with authentication

There are a few different options available for authenticating an email client.

To authenticate a client, you instantiate an EmailClient with your connection string. Learn how to manage your resource's connection string. You can also initialize the client with any custom HTTP client that implements the com.azure.core.http.HttpClient interface.

To instantiate a synchronous client, add the following code to the main method:

// You can get your connection string from your resource in the Azure portal.
String connectionString = "endpoint=https://<resource-name>.communication.azure.com/;accesskey=<access-key>";

EmailClient emailClient = new EmailClientBuilder()
    .connectionString(connectionString)
    .buildClient();

To instantiate an asynchronous client, add the following code to the main method:

// You can get your connection string from your resource in the Azure portal.
String connectionString = "endpoint=https://<resource-name>.communication.azure.com/;accesskey=<access-key>";

EmailAsyncClient emailClient = new EmailClientBuilder()
    .connectionString(connectionString)
    .buildAsyncClient();

For simplicity, this quickstart uses connection strings, but in production environments, we recommend using service principals.

Basic email sending

An email message can be crafted using the EmailMessage object in the SDK.

EmailMessage message = new EmailMessage()
    .setSenderAddress("<donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net>")
    .setToRecipients("<emailalias@emaildomain.com>")
    .setSubject("Welcome to Azure Communication Services Email")
    .setBodyPlainText("This email message is sent from Azure Communication Services Email using the Java SDK.");

Make these replacements in the code:

  • Replace <emailalias@emaildomain.com> with the email address you would like to send a message to.
  • Replace <donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net> with the MailFrom address of your verified domain.

To send the email message, call the beginSend function from the EmailClient.

Calling beginSend on the sync client returns a SyncPoller object, which can be used to check on the status of the operation and retrieve the result once it's finished. Note that the initial request to send an email will be sent as soon as the beginSend method is called. Sending an email is a long running operation. Its important to note that the getFinalResult() method on the poller is a blocking operation until a terminal state (SUCCESSFULLY_COMPLETED or FAILED) is reached. The recommended method is to do manual polling at an interval that's appropriate for your application needs as demonstrated in the sample below.

try
{
    SyncPoller<EmailSendResult, EmailSendResult> poller = emailClient.beginSend(message, null); // This will send out the initial request to send an email

    PollResponse<EmailSendResult> pollResponse = null;

    Duration timeElapsed = Duration.ofSeconds(0);
    Duration POLLER_WAIT_TIME = Duration.ofSeconds(10);

    // Polling is done manually to avoid blocking the application in case of an error
    while (pollResponse == null
            || pollResponse.getStatus() == LongRunningOperationStatus.NOT_STARTED
            || pollResponse.getStatus() == LongRunningOperationStatus.IN_PROGRESS)
    {
        pollResponse = poller.poll();
        // The operation ID can be retrieved as soon as .poll() is called on the poller
        System.out.println("Email send poller status: " + pollResponse.getStatus() + ", operation id: " + pollResponse.getValue().getId());

        Thread.sleep(POLLER_WAIT_TIME.toMillis());
        timeElapsed = timeElapsed.plus(POLLER_WAIT_TIME);

        if (timeElapsed.compareTo(POLLER_WAIT_TIME.multipliedBy(18)) >= 0)
        {
            throw new RuntimeException("Polling timed out.");
        }
    }

    if (poller.getFinalResult().getStatus() == EmailSendStatus.SUCCEEDED)
    {
        System.out.printf("Successfully sent the email (operation id: %s)", poller.getFinalResult().getId());
    }
    else
    {
        throw new RuntimeException(poller.getFinalResult().getError().getMessage());
    }
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
    System.out.println(exception.getMessage());
}

Run the code

  1. Navigate to the directory that contains the pom.xml file and compile the project by using the mvn command.

    mvn compile

  2. Build the package.

    mvn package

  3. Run the following mvn command to execute the app.

    mvn exec:java -D"exec.mainClass"="com.communication.quickstart.App" -D"exec.cleanupDaemonThreads"="false"

Sample code

You can download the sample app from GitHub

Get started with Azure Communication Services by using the Communication Services Python Email SDK to send Email messages.

Tip

Jump-start your email sending experience with Azure Communication Services by skipping straight to the Basic Email Sending and Advanced Email Sending sample code on GitHub.

Understanding the email object model

The following JSON message template & response object demonstrate some of the major features of the Azure Communication Services Email SDK for Python.

message = {
    "content": {
        "subject": "str",  # Subject of the email message. Required.
        "html": "str",  # Optional. Html version of the email message.
        "plainText": "str"  # Optional. Plain text version of the email
            message.
    },
    "recipients": {
        "to": [
            {
                "address": "str",  # Email address. Required.
                "displayName": "str"  # Optional. Email display name.
            }
        ],
        "bcc": [
            {
                "address": "str",  # Email address. Required.
                "displayName": "str"  # Optional. Email display name.
            }
        ],
        "cc": [
            {
                "address": "str",  # Email address. Required.
                "displayName": "str"  # Optional. Email display name.
            }
        ]
    },
    "senderAddress": "str",  # Sender email address from a verified domain. Required.
    "attachments": [
        {
            "contentInBase64": "str",  # Base64 encoded contents of the attachment. Required.
            "contentType": "str",  # MIME type of the content being attached. Required.
            "name": "str"  # Name of the attachment. Required.
        }
    ],
    "userEngagementTrackingDisabled": bool,  # Optional. Indicates whether user engagement tracking should be disabled for this request if the resource-level user engagement tracking setting was already enabled in the control plane.
    "headers": {
        "str": "str"  # Optional. Custom email headers to be passed.
    },
    "replyTo": [
        {
            "address": "str",  # Email address. Required.
            "displayName": "str"  # Optional. Email display name.
        }
    ]
}

response = {
    "id": "str",  # The unique id of the operation. Uses a UUID. Required.
    "status": "str",  # Status of operation. Required. Known values are:
        "NotStarted", "Running", "Succeeded", and "Failed".
    "error": {
        "additionalInfo": [
            {
                "info": {},  # Optional. The additional info.
                "type": "str"  # Optional. The additional info type.
            }
        ],
        "code": "str",  # Optional. The error code.
        "details": [
            ...
        ],
        "message": "str",  # Optional. The error message.
        "target": "str"  # Optional. The error target.
    }
}

The response.status values are explained further in the following table.

Status Name Description
InProgress The email send operation is currently in progress and being processed.
Succeeded The email send operation has completed without error and the email is out for delivery. Any detailed status about the email delivery beyond this stage can be obtained either through Azure Monitor or through Azure Event Grid. Learn how to subscribe to email events
Failed The email send operation wasn't successful and encountered an error. The email wasn't sent. The result contains an error object with more details on the reason for failure.

Prerequisites

Completing this quick start incurs a small cost of a few USD cents or less in your Azure account.

Note

We can also send an email from our own verified domain. Add custom verified domains to Email Communication Service.

Prerequisite check

  • In a terminal or command window, run the python --version command to check that Python is installed.
  • To view the domains verified with your Email Communication Services resource, sign in to the Azure portal. Locate your Email Communication Services resource and open the Provision domains tab from the left navigation pane.

Set up the application environment

To set up an environment for sending emails, take the steps in the following sections.

Create a new Python application

  1. Open your terminal or command window. Then use the following command to create a virtual environment and activate it. This command creates a new directory for your app.

    python -m venv email-quickstart

  2. Navigate to the root directory of the virtual environment and activate it using the following commands.

    cd email-quickstart
.\Scripts\activate

  3. Use a text editor to create a file called send-email.py in the project root directory and add the structure for the program, including basic exception handling.

    import os
from azure.communication.email import EmailClient

try:
    # Quickstart code goes here.
except Exception as ex:
    print('Exception:')
    print(ex)

In the following sections, you add all the source code for this quickstart to the send-email.py file that you created.

Install the package

While still in the application directory, install the Azure Communication Services Email SDK for Python package by using the following command.

pip install azure-communication-email

Creating the email client with authentication

There are a few different options available for authenticating an email client:

Instantiate an EmailClient with your connection string. Learn how to manage your resource's connection string.

# Create the EmailClient object that you use to send Email messages.
email_client = EmailClient.from_connection_string(<connection_string>)

For simplicity, this quickstart uses connection strings, but in production environments, we recommend using service principals.

Basic email sending

Send an email message

To send an email message, you need to:

  • Construct the message with the following values:
    • senderAddress: A valid sender email address, found in the MailFrom field in the overview pane of the domain linked to your Email Communication Services Resource.
    • recipients: An object with a list of email recipients, and optionally, lists of CC & BCC email recipients.
    • content: An object containing the subject, and optionally the plaintext or HTML content, of an email message.
  • Call the begin_send method, which returns the result of the operation.
message = {
    "content": {
        "subject": "This is the subject",
        "plainText": "This is the body",
        "html": "<html><h1>This is the body</h1></html>"
    },
    "recipients": {
        "to": [
            {
                "address": "<emailalias@emaildomain.com>",
                "displayName": "Customer Name"
            }
        ]
    },
    "senderAddress": "<donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net>"
}

poller = email_client.begin_send(message)
print("Result: " + poller.result())

Make these replacements in the code:

  • Replace <emailalias@emaildomain.com> with the email address you would like to send a message to.
  • Replace <donotreply@xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.azurecomm.net> with the MailFrom address of your verified domain.

Get the status of the email delivery

We can poll for the status of the email delivery by setting a loop on the operation status object returned from the EmailClient's begin_send method:

POLLER_WAIT_TIME = 10

try:
    email_client = EmailClient.from_connection_string(connection_string)

    poller = email_client.begin_send(message);

    time_elapsed = 0
    while not poller.done():
        print("Email send poller status: " + poller.status())

        poller.wait(POLLER_WAIT_TIME)
        time_elapsed += POLLER_WAIT_TIME

        if time_elapsed > 18 * POLLER_WAIT_TIME:
            raise RuntimeError("Polling timed out.")

    if poller.result()["status"] == "Succeeded":
        print(f"Successfully sent the email (operation id: {poller.result()['id']})")
    else:
        raise RuntimeError(str(poller.result()["error"]))

except Exception as ex:
    print(ex)

Run the code

Run the application from your application directory with the python command.

python send-email.py

Sample code

You can download the sample app from GitHub

Prerequisites

Send email

To add a new step to your workflow by using the Azure Communication Services Email connector, follow these steps:

  1. In the designer, open your logic app workflow.

    Consumption

    1. Under the step where you want to add the new action, select New step. Alternatively, to add the new action between steps, move your pointer over the arrow between those steps, select the plus sign (+), and select Add an action.

    2. Under the Choose an operation search box, select Premium. In the search box, enter Azure Communication Email.

    3. From the actions list, select Send email.

      Screenshot that shows the Azure Communication Services Email connector Send email action.

    Standard

    1. Under the step where you want to add the new action, select the plus sign (+). Alternatively, to add the new action between steps, move your pointer over the arrow between those steps, select the plus sign (+), and select Add an action.

    2. Under the Add an action search box, select Premium in the runtime dropdown. In the search box, enter Azure Communication Email.

    3. From the actions list, select Send email.

  2. Provide a name for the connection.

  3. Enter the connection string for your Azure Communications Service resource. To find this string, follow these steps:

    1. In the Azure portal, open your Azure Communication Service resource.

    2. On the resource menu, under Settings, select Keys, and copy the connection string.

      Screenshot that shows the Azure Communication Services Connection String.

  4. When you're done, select Create.

  5. In the From field, use the email address that you configured in the prerequisites. Enter the values for the To Email, Subject, and Body fields, for example:

    Screenshot that shows the Azure Communication Services Email connector Send email action input.

  6. Save your workflow. On the designer toolbar, select Save.

Test your workflow

Based on whether you have a Consumption or Standard workflow, manually start your workflow:

  • Consumption: On the designer toolbar, select Run Trigger > Run.
  • Standard: On the workflow menu, select Overview. On the toolbar, select Run Trigger > Run.

The workflow creates a user, issues an access token for that user, then removes and deletes the user. You can check the outputs of these actions after the workflow runs successfully.

You should get an email at the specified address. Also, you can use the Get email message status action to check the status of emails send through the Send email action. For more actions, review the Azure Communication Services Email connector reference documentation.

Clean up workflow resources

To clean up your logic app resource, workflow, and related resources, review how to clean up Consumption logic app resources or how to clean up Standard logic app resources.

Troubleshooting

Email Delivery

To troubleshoot issues related to email delivery, you can get status of the email delivery to capture delivery details.

Important

The success result returned by polling for the status of the send operation only validates the fact that the email has successfully been sent out for delivery. To get additional information about the status of the delivery on the recipient end, you will need to reference how to handle email events.

Email Throttling

If you see that your application is hanging it could be due to email sending being throttled. You can handle this through logging or by implementing a custom policy.

Note

This sandbox setup is to help developers start building the application. You can gradually request to increase the sending volume once the application is ready to go live. Submit a support request to raise your desired sending limit if you require sending a volume of messages exceeding the rate limits.

Clean up Azure Communication Service resources

To clean up and remove a Communication Services subscription, you can delete the resource or resource group. Deleting the resource group also deletes any other associated resources. Learn more about cleaning up resources.

Next steps

In this quickstart, you learned how to send emails using Azure Communication Services. You might also want to: