Azure Web 应用 SQL 电子邮件通知

Question

I'm just wondering what is the best (and most economical) way to do email notifications on an SQL database in Azure?

I've setup a web app and it uses an SQL database. In that database there are a couple of tables with Expiry Dates in. I want to send an email to the owner of that record (and possibly others) when the expiry date is approaching so for example 1 month before, 2 weeks before, 1 week before, 3, 2, 1 days before and on expiry. Then also on a weekly basis after expiry date keep notifying it is expired.

How would i do this?

Thanks

[UPDATE] Just to clarify I've already setup an email client in my web app using SMTPClient. I'm looking how to setup the automated process to send such emails.

Thanks

Answer 1

Using Email and Azure, the default choice is using SendGrid. And although SendGrid doesn't offer a Free pricing plan on their website anymore, you can choose the Free pricing tier when you create a SendGrid account through the Azure portal. It includes 25,000 emails/month.

Have a look at this article on how to: How to Send Email Using SendGrid with Azure

After this addition:

how to setup the automated process of sending those kind of notification emails?

I would say: have a look at running a WebJob at a specified interval. WebJobs come for free with Web Apps, and can be seen as old-fashioned cron jobs. Getting stuff from a database and sending out mails based on the information sounds like an excellent task for a WebJob.

I would suggest you write a WebJob using the WebJobs SDK , since this helps in getting stuff up & running pretty fast.