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Learning Force.com Application Development
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Learning Force.com Application Development

by Chamil Madusanka
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
406 pages
8h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sending e-mails

In the previous section, we learned to handle inbound e-mails. Now, it's time to learn about outbound e-mails, which can either be basic text based messages or rich HTML based messages (with or without attachments), and sending them through Apex. The Force.com platform allows us to send e-mails by using a broad set of built-in classes and methods. The outbound e-mails can be sent by a trigger, Visualforce controller, e-mail services or by any other platform.

There are two types of e-mails that can be sent by the Force.com platform.

  • Single e-mails: These are e-mails with the same e-mail body and they are sent to one or more e-mail addresses.
  • Mass e-mails: These are the e-mails with the personalized message bodies that may be sent to ...
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