Hi,

I am currently trying to develop a module for DNN 4.5.1. The module emails a list of people. Currently I am using the DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.Sendmail function to do this. My question is that I need to get the host settings for this email and I don't want to hardcode it because it needs to be used on several sites, so how do I access the host settings?

I know that DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings.GetHostSettings returns me a hashtable but I am unsure what the proper key names are. If there is documentation I have been unsuccessful in finding it, and it would be a extremely helpful if I had something like that. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

A comments on sending email in DNN.

If you are trying to send a block of emails - making a call to sendmail for each seperate email - then  you will need to have a look at how the Newsletter/Bulk Emailer module works.

Sending a lot of emails can be somewhat time consuming - and depending on the response speed of your email server - you are likely to get PAGE timeouts before all the emails are sent - the result being not all the emails will be processed.

To get around this you will need to use a seperate thread to process your emails - so that the PAGE timeout does not occur.

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As for how to get host settings - I assume you mean the portal settings here:

Dim _portalSettings As PortalSettings = PortalController.GetCurrentPortalSettings()

The _portalSettings object should contain the settings you are looking for.

Westa

Creating a thread is a really good idea actually since it is possible a significant number of emails needs to be sent at a time, thanks for the advice. Do I need to use any special functionality through the DNN framework when creating a thread, or should I just use the normal C#/VB libraries?