axuno / Mailmergelib

MailMergeLib version 5 is an SMTP mail client library which provides comfortable mail merge capabilities. MailMergeLib is written in C# and comes with the following features:

1. Mail message generation:

• Email templates can be fully individualized in terms of recipients, subject, HTML and/or plain text, attachments and even headers. Placeholders are inserted as variable names from data source between curly braces like so: {MailboxAddress.Name} or with formatting arguments like {Date:yyyy-MM-dd}.
• HTML text may contain images from local hard disk, which will be automatically inserted as inline attachments.
• For HTML text MailMergeLib can generate a plain text representation.
• Attachment sources can be files, streams or strings.
• The data source for email merge messages to a number of recipients and be any IEnumerable object as well as DataTables. The data source for single emails can be any of the following types: Dictionary<string,object>, ExpandoObject, DataRow, any class instances or anonymous types. For class instances it's even allowed to use the name of parameter less methods.
• Placeholders in the email can be formatted with any of the features known from string.Format by using SmartFormat.NET. SmartFormat is a parser coming close to string.Format's speed, but bringing a lot of additional options like easy pluralization for many languages.
• Resulting emails are MimeMessages from MimeKit, an outstanding tool for creating and parsing emails, covering all relevant MIME standards making sure that emails are not qualified as SPAM.
• Support for international email address format.

2. Sending email messages:

• Practically unlimited number of parallel tasks to send out individualized emails to a big number of recipients.
• SmptClients for each task can get their own preconfigured settings, so that e.g. several mail servers can be used for one send job.
• Progress of processing emails can easily be observed with a number of events.
• SMTP failures can automatically be resolved supplying a backup configuration. This fault-tolerance is essential for unattended production systems.
• Emails are sent using the SmtpClient from MailKit, the sister project to MimeKit. SmtpClient is highly flexible and can be configured for literally every scenario you can think of.
• Instead of sending, emails can also be stored in MIME formatted text files, e.g. if a "pickup directory" from IIS or Microsoft Exchange shall be used. If needed, these files can be loaded back into a MimeMessage from MimeKit.

3. Save and restore:

• Messages and templates can be saved and loaded to/from XML files.
• Configuration settings for messages and SMTP can be stored to and loaded from an XML file.

4. Both:

• Fine grained control over the whole process of email message generation and distribution.
• Clearly out-performs .NET System.Net.Mail.
• RFC standards compliant.
• We aks you not to use MailMergeLib for sending unsolicited bulk email.

5. Supported Frameworks

• .Net Framework 4.6+
• .Net Standard 2.1
• .Net 5.0

Get started

Install the NuGet package

Have a look at the MailMergeLib Wiki

History

MailMergeLib was introduced back in 2007 on CodeProject. The last version published there is 4.03. It is based on System.Net.Mail. For anyone still using System.Net.Mail, Jeffrey Stedfast's Code Review might be interesting, although he describes issues more polite than they actually are (especially in terms of RFC violations).

MailMergeLib 5 published on GitHub is a major rewrite, and it is not backwards compatible to prior releases. There is, however, a migration guide included in the MailMergeLib Wiki.