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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

I am creating a C# plugin, and I am having some issues sending an email to a list of emails.

From a workflow activity, I returned a list of emails in a string, but it looks like the OOB Send Email activity requires a lookup for the To/CC/BCC fields.

Is there a way I can accomplish this?

I have tried looking at this sample from Microsoft, but I cannot for the life of me find where the Email class is defined: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh210217.aspx

Thanks,

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  • prt33k Profile Picture
    prt33k 6,907 on at
    RE: Send Email to list of emails.

    ah! late reply :)

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    prt33k Profile Picture
    prt33k 6,907 on at
    RE: Send Email to list of emails.
    public void SendEmailToUnresolvedRecipient(IOrganizationService crmService,
string recipientEmailAddress,
Guid senderUserId,
string prmSubject,
string prmMessageBody)
        {

            // Creating Email 'to' recipient activity party entity object
            Entity emailToReciepent = new Entity("activityparty");

            // Creating Email 'from' recipient activity party entity object
            Entity emailFromReciepent = new Entity("activityparty");

            // Assigning receiver email address to activity party addressused attribute
            emailToReciepent["addressused"] = recipientEmailAddress;

            // Setting from user account
            emailFromReciepent["partyid"] = new EntityReference("systemuser", senderUserId);

            // Creating Email entity object
            Entity emailEntity = new Entity("email");

            // Setting email entity 'to' attribute value
            emailEntity["to"] = new Entity[] { emailToReciepent };

            // Setting email entity 'from' attribute value
            emailEntity["from"] = new Entity[] { emailFromReciepent };

            // Setting email subject and description
            emailEntity["subject"] = prmSubject;

            emailEntity["description"] = prmMessageBody;

            // Creating email record
            Guid emailId = crmService.Create(emailEntity);

            // Creating SendEmailRequest object for sending email
            SendEmailRequest sendEmailreq = new SendEmailRequest
            {
                EmailId = emailId,
                TrackingToken = "",
                IssueSend = true
            };

            SendEmailResponse sendEmailresp = (SendEmailResponse)crmService.Execute(sendEmailreq);

        }

    This should work..

    Prateek

  • Community Member Profile Picture
    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Send Email to list of emails.

    Thank you so much for your help!

    The problem was that the to/from/cc/bcc list required an Entity of type activityparty. The late-bound example made this clear to me.

  • Verified answer
    ashlega Profile Picture
    ashlega 34,475 on at
    RE: Send Email to list of emails.

    Hi,

     you need to generate those early-bound classes first:

    msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg327844.aspx

     If you wanted to use late-bound, there is an example here:

    mubashersharif.blogspot.ca/.../send-email-using-late-binding-crm-2011.html

      As for the lookup vs plain text address, you can configure what's allowed if you go to Settings->Administration->System Settings->Email->"Allow messages with unresolved email recipients to be sent"

     Once you've configured that option, you can use this as an example:

    paul-way.com/sending-unresolved-emails

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