Sending mail messages through Gmail
recently I had to send a bunch of identical email messages for the CodeCamp we are organizing. Now there are plenty of ways to do this but I decided to write a little program using C# to send them. And just to make sure I can find the code next year 
var from = new MailAddress("<<your email>>", "<<your name??");
var to = new MailAddress("<<destination address>>", "<<their name>>");
var message = new MailMessage(from, to);
message.Subject = "The subject";
message.Body = "The message body";
message.IsBodyHtml = true;
var host = "smtp.gmail.com";
var client = new SmtpClient(host, 587);
client.EnableSsl = true;
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<<your username>>", "<<your password>>");
client.Send(message);
Easy as that.
Few things to note. I used a different sender address as we wanted all replies to end up in a shared mailbox instead of mine. Worked just fine even though I used my own account details to send.
There is a check on the number of messages send in a short time span. Not sure what the limit is, it seemed something like 100 per minute, but I had to add some sleep time between messages in order to send them all. No big deal but something to keep in mind.
Enjoy!
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