JSON API » emails » emails/send

Sends bulk emails. The actual sending up is asynchronous, and will happen after the function returns. How the emails are sent depends on the local mail transport agent (MTA) configuration.

Input parameters

Requires authentication and the send emails role privilege.

Name	Type	Description	Required	Default value
auth_username	String	Authentication username.	Yes
auth_password	String	Authentication password.	Yes
destination	String	Type of destination. See below for details.	Recommended	Empty string.
emails	String	List of email addresses to send to, separated by spaces and/or commas.	See below	Empty string.
from	String	From address.	Yes
subject	String	Email subject.	Yes
body	String	Email body.	Yes
customer	Integer	ID of customer to send as.	No	Customer of authentication user.
filenameX	String	Name of file X. X should start from 1. First file will have parameter named as filename1	No
fileX	String	base64 encoded data for file number X	No

The following destination types are defined:

Field value	Send emails to
Empty string or field not set	The addresses in the emails parameter.
"billing"	The billing contacts of all sub-customers.
"billing_recursive"	The billing contacts of all sub-customers, recursively.
"customer"	All people in the sending customer.
"me"	Just yourself.
"recursive"	All people in sub-customers, recursively.

The emails parameter is only used if the destination parameter is an empty string.

Responses

Code	Description
200	Emails successfully submitted for sending.
400	Invalid input parameters specified. Check the key and message fields for more details.
401	The authentication details provided are invalid.
402	Your role does not allow this.
403	Your rate plan does not allow this.

Data returned

A count of the emails sent.

Example: With required and recommended parameters

http://enswitch.example.com/api/json/emails/send/?auth_username=user;auth_password=password;destination=me;from=from%40example.com;subject=Example%20email;body=This%20is%20an%20example%20email

{ "responses":[ { "code":"200", "key":"", "message":"OK" } ], "data":{ "count":1 } }

Example: With emails parameter

http://enswitch.example.com/api/json/emails/send/?auth_username=user;auth_password=password;destination=;emails=destination1%40example.com,destination2%40example.com;from=from%40example.com;subject=Example%20email;body=This%20is%20an%20example%20email

{ "responses":[ { "code":"200", "key":"", "message":"OK" } ], "data":{ "count":2 } }

Change history

Version	Changes
4.2	filenameX and fileX parameters added.
3.13	Function added.