ASP.Net Email Notifications

cotton31 · 27 Oct 2014 at 14:53

Hi,

I have an ASP.Net application, lets say for logging tasks.

I need to email users when tasks are due.

To do this, I'm thinking I'd have a Console application that runs every day to check whether any task due dates are coming up, and email accordingly.

Am I on the right track? There's no way I'd be able to do this within the ASP.Net app?

Thanks,

jubei · 27 Oct 2014 at 20:16

Have a look into Signal R mate, might cover what you need.

Haircut · 28 Oct 2014 at 07:22

How is SignalR going to help him send emails?

OP, a console application is the last thing you'd want running on a server. If this is for a corporate thing and not your own project I'd be surprised if you were even allowed to do that.

There shouldn't be a problem with just having a process running under IIS that sends out your emails when needed.

cotton31 · 28 Oct 2014 at 12:26

Haircut - can you give me a bit more detail on your last sentence? I wasn't very happy with having a console app running, but wasn't sure how else I'd do it?

Thanks,

Haircut · 28 Oct 2014 at 13:10

Well, if you have flexibility in what you can implement then my preferred solution would be a Windows service.

If it needs to be hosted within IIS then you would just have a standard ASP.NET application that is set to auto start that sits there and sends out emails when needed.

cotton31 · 28 Oct 2014 at 21:54

In the end I went for a combination of Hangfire and Postal.