How to send emails via API

Learn how you can send emails with VMA Emailer API.

To use the send command please use POST to https://api.elasticemail.com/v2/email/send with the parameters listed below.

PARAMETERS:
* apikey=your api key,
* subject=email subject,
* from=from email address,
* to=List of email recipients (each email is treated separately, like a BCC). Separated by comma or semicolon. We suggest using the "msgTo" parameter.
* bodyHtml=html email body [optional],
* bodyText=text email body [optional],
* isTransactional - True, if email is transactional (non-bulk, non-marketing, non-commercial). Otherwise, false

Full list of additional parameters is available in our API Documentation.

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

namespace ElasticEmailClient
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            NameValueCollection values = new NameValueCollection();
            values.Add("apikey", "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000");
            values.Add("from", "youremail@yourdomain.com");
            values.Add("fromName", "Your Company Name");
            values.Add("to", "recipient1@gmail.com;recipient2@gmail.com");
            values.Add("subject", "Your Subject");
            values.Add("bodyText", "Text Body");
            values.Add("bodyHtml", "<h1>Html Body</h1>");
values.Add("isTransactional", true);

            string address = "https://api.elasticemail.com/v2/email/send";

            string response = Send(address, values);

            Console.WriteLine(response);
        }

        static string Send(string address, NameValueCollection values)
        {
            using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
            {
                try
                {
                    byte[] apiResponse = client.UploadValues(address, values);
                    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(apiResponse);

                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    return "Exception caught: " + ex.Message + "\n" + ex.StackTrace;
                }
            }
        }

    }
}

Java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

public class ElasticEmailClient {
 
 public static String Send(String userName, String apiKey, String from, String fromName, String subject, String body, String to, String isTransactional) {
 
 try {
 
 String encoding = "UTF-8";
 
 String data = "apikey=" + URLEncoder.encode(apiKey, encoding);
 data += "&from=" + URLEncoder.encode(from, encoding);
 data += "&fromName=" + URLEncoder.encode(fromName, encoding);
 data += "&subject=" + URLEncoder.encode(subject, encoding);
 data += "&bodyHtml=" + URLEncoder.encode(body, encoding);
 data += "&to=" + URLEncoder.encode(to, encoding);
 data += "&isTransactional=" + URLEncoder.encode(isTransactional, encoding);
 
 URL url = new URL("https://api.elasticemail.com/v2/email/send");
 URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
 conn.setDoOutput(true);
 OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
 wr.write(data);
 wr.flush();
 BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
 String result = rd.readLine();
 wr.close();
 rd.close();

 return result;
 }
 
 catch(Exception e) {
 
 e.printStackTrace();
 }
 }

}

PHP

<?php
$url = 'https://api.elasticemail.com/v2/email/send';

try{
        $post = array('from' => 'youremail@yourdomain.com',
'fromName' => 'Your Company Name',
'apikey' => '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000',
'subject' => 'Your Subject',
'to' => 'recipient1@gmail.com;recipient2@gmail.com',
'bodyHtml' => '<h1>Html Body</h1>',
'bodyText' => 'Text Body',
'isTransactional' => false);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
            CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_POST => true,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $post,
            CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
            CURLOPT_HEADER => false,
CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false
        ));

        $result=curl_exec ($ch);
        curl_close ($ch);

        echo $result;
}
catch(Exception $ex){
echo $ex->getMessage();
}
?>

Python

import requests
import json
from enum import Enum
class ApiClient:
apiUri = 'https://api.elasticemail.com/v2'
apiKey = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000'

def Request(method, url, data):
data['apikey'] = ApiClient.apiKey
if method == 'POST':
result = requests.post(ApiClient.apiUri + url, params = data)
elif method == 'PUT':
result = requests.put(ApiClient.apiUri + url, params = data)
elif method == 'GET':
attach = ''
for key in data:
attach = attach + key + '=' + data[key] + '&'
url = url + '?' + attach[:-1]
result = requests.get(ApiClient.apiUri + url)

jsonMy = result.json()

if jsonMy['success'] is False:
return jsonMy['error']

return jsonMy['data']

def Send(subject, EEfrom, fromName, to, bodyHtml, bodyText, isTransactional):
return ApiClient.Request('POST', '/email/send', {
'subject': subject,
'from': EEfrom,
'fromName': fromName,
'to': to,
'bodyHtml': bodyHtml,
'bodyText': bodyText,
'isTransactional': isTransactional})

print(Send("Your Subject", "youremail@yourdomain.com", "Your Company Name", "recipient1@gmail.com;recipient2@gmail.com", "<h1>Html Body</h1>", "Text Body", True))

License

All code samples are licensed under MIT license.

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