This is the official C# wrapper for the Paubox Transactional Email HTTP API. It is currently in alpha development.
The Paubox Transactional Email API allows your application to send secure, HIPAA-compliant email via Paubox and track deliveries and opens.
The API wrapper allows you to construct and send messages.
Add the class library Paubox.Email.API.dll in your C# project by using ‘Add Reference’ option within the Project – References node.
You will need to have a Paubox account. You can sign up here.
Once you have an account, follow the instructions on the Rest API dashboard to verify domain ownership and generate API credentials.
Include your API credentials in a config file.
Add two app settings keys with their values in App.Config (For Desktop App, Windows Service) or Web.Config (For ASP.NET projects):
<add key="APIKey" value="Your-API-Key-Here"/>
<add key="APIUser" value="Your-Username-Here"/>This library supports .NET v4.6.1 and higher. Add the following to your config file:
<startup><supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1"/></startup>
Please add the Paubox namespace in the using section as shown below:
using Paubox;To send an email, prepare a Message object and call EmailLibrary.SendMessage method:
static SendMessageResponse SendMessage()
{
Message message = new Message();
Content content = new Content();
Header header = new Header();
message.Recipients = new string[] { "[email protected]",
"[email protected]" };
header.From = "[email protected]";
message.Cc = new string[] { "[email protected]" };
message.Bcc = new string[] { "[email protected]" };
header.Subject = "Testing!";
header.ReplyTo = "[email protected]";
content.PlainText = "Hello World!";
message.Header = header;
message.Content = content;
SendMessageResponse response = EmailLibrary.SendMessage(message);
return response;
}If you want to send non-PHI mail that does not need to be HIPAA-compliant, you can allow the message delivery to take place even if a TLS connection is unavailable. This means a message will not be converted into a Secure Notification message when a unencrypted connection is encountered. For this, just set message.AllowNonTLS to true, as shown below:
static SendMessageResponse SendNonTLSMessage()
{
Message message = new Message();
Content content = new Content();
Header header = new Header();
message.Recipients = new string[] { "[email protected]",
"[email protected]" };
header.From = "[email protected]";
message.Cc = new string[] { "[email protected]" };
message.Bcc = new string[] { "[email protected]" };
header.Subject = "Testing!";
header.ReplyTo = "[email protected]";
content.PlainText = "Hello World!";
message.AllowNonTLS = true;
message.Header = header;
message.Content = content;
SendMessageResponse response = EmailLibrary.SendMessage(message);
return response;
}Paubox Secure Notifications allow an extra layer of security, especially when coupled with an organization's requirement for message recipients to use 2-factor authentication to read messages (this setting is available to org administrators in the Paubox Admin Panel).
Instead of receiving an email with the message contents, the recipient will receive a notification email that they have a new message in Paubox.
static SendMessageResponse SendMessage()
{
Message message = new Message();
Content content = new Content();
Header header = new Header();
message.Recipients = new string[] { "[email protected]",
"[email protected]" };
header.From = "[email protected]";
message.Cc = new string[] { "[email protected]" };
message.Bcc = new string[] { "[email protected]" };
header.Subject = "Testing!";
header.ReplyTo = "[email protected]";
content.PlainText = "Hello World!";
message.ForceSecureNotification = "true";
message.Header = header;
message.Content = content;
SendMessageResponse response = EmailLibrary.SendMessage(message);
return response;
}To get email status for any source tracking id, call the EmailLibrary.GetEmailDisposition method:
static void GetEmailDisposition()
{
GetEmailDispositionResponse response =
EmailLibrary.GetEmailDisposition("2a3c048485aa4cf6");
}Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/paubox/paubox-csharp.
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