Scheduled Mail in asp.net

Question

Hai Guys, My application deals scheduled mail concept (i.e) every morning 6.00 am my users gets a remainder mail about their activities for the day... I dont know how t

Answer 1

If you happen to have it handy (and I assume you do), you can use a SQL Server Agent job to make a request to an ASP.NET page that sends the email.

Here's some example code:

http://nicholasclarke.co.uk/blog/2008/01/16/web-request-from-sql-server-via-c/

Of course, since you're using SQL Server to call CLR code anyway, you could just have that code send out the emails (via System.Net.Mail) rather than requesting a page on IIS to do so. To do this, SQL Server would need:

• Access to all of the data needed to send the emails
• Outbound firewall access to send an email
• CLR code that encapsulates all of the logic needed to know where/what to send.