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Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782172796
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application A. Force.com Tools Index

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 a large number of addresses. However, currently, this feature has an upper limit, and the different versions of this platform have different limits, such as Professional Edition(250), Enterprise Edition(500), and Unlimited and Performance Edition...
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