Sending emails using Apex

Eassy to learn Sending emails using Apex

// Send a business proposal to each new Contact
trigger Proposal on Contact (before insert) {
// Step 0: Create a master list to hold the emails we'll send
List<Messaging.SingleEmailMessage> mails = 
new List<Messaging.SingleEmailMessage>();

for (Contact myContact : Trigger.new) {
// Step 1: Create a new Email
Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = 
new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();

// Step 2: Set list of people who should get the email
List<String> sendTo = new List<String>();
sendTo.add(myContact.Email); mail.setToAddresses(sendTo);

// Step 3: Set who the email is sent from mail.setReplyTo('sirdavid@bankofnigeria.com');
mail.setSenderDisplayName('Official Bank of Nigeria');

// (Optional) Set list of people who should be CC'ed
List<String> ccTo = new List<String>();
ccTo.add('business@bankofnigeria.com'); mail.setCcAddresses(ccTo);

// Step 4. Set email contents - you can use variables! mail.setSubject('URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL');
String body = 'Dear ' + myContact.FirstName + ', ';
body += 'I confess this will come as a surprise to you.';
body += 'I am John Alliston CEO of the Bank of Nigeria.';
body += 'I write to request your cooperation in this ';
body += 'urgent matter as I need a foreign partner ';
body += 'in the assistance of transferring $47,110,000 ';
body += 'to a US bank account. Please respond urgently with ';
body += 'your bank account # so I may deposit these funds.'; mail.setHtmlBody(body);

// Step 5. Add your email to the master list
mails.add(mail);
}
// Step 6: Send all emails in the master list 
Messaging.sendEmail(mails);
}

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