Integrate Sendgrid to send Email Notifications

Email Notification is one daemon process (background job that runs periodically) that you can check by navigating to <your-weavy-url>/manage/daemons and click on Email notifications. Every direct message the user receives which is not read and other thread notifications are delivered to user's inbox. The image shows an example of notifications. 

This tutorial will use Sendgrid as an example.

1. Sign up for a SendGrid account
2. Create and store a SendGrid API key with full access "Mail Send" permissions.
3. Verify your Sender Identity

Configuration with web.config

Most commonly, settings are defined within the appSettings element in web.config, but there are also other ways to configure settings. You need to specify few details such as:

• For an unencrypted or a TLS connection, use port 25, 2525, or 587.
• For a SSL connection, use port 465.

To see your changes in effect, save the changes made, rebuild your weavy solution and start without debugging. 

Once you start the local server again, navigate to https://localhost:44323/manage/tools and click on Email test and hit on Run. You should see a screen something like this

Check your mail box with which you have registered on weavy and you should see an email like this

Congratulations, you just rocked!
You can integrate any SMTP servers in similar fashion, if you need SSL connection, you can add the key weavy.smtp-ssl and set it's value to true inside the configuration file. 

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