To send Email from Apex using email Template

To use an Email Template from Apex Class in order to send an email:

In order to send an email from apex class, you can use any of the below messaging objects.

Single Email Messaging :

Instantiates the object to send single email message.

Ex: To send single email to a selected Contact.

public void SendEmail()

{

contact con=[Select id from contact limit 1];

EmailTemplate et=[Select id from EmailTemplate where name=:'EmailTemplatename'];

Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();

mail.setTargetObjectId(con.Id);

mail.setSenderDisplayName('Charan Tej');

mail.setTemplateId(et.id);

Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] { mail });

}

For other object methods of Single Email Messaging, Click Here

Note: Do remember that we can send only 10 emails in method invocation of Apex class using SingleEmailMessage.

Mass Email Messaging:

Instantiates the object to send mass email message.

Ex: To send mass email to a Contacts.

public void SendEmail()

{

List<contact> lstcon=[Select id from contact limit 200];

List<Id> lstids= new List<Id>();

for(Contact c:lstcon){

lstids.add(c.id);

}

EmailTemplate et=[Select id from EmailTemplate where name=:'EmailTemplatename'];

Messaging.MassEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.MassEmailMessage();

mail.setTargetObjectIds(lstIds);

mail.setSenderDisplayName('Charan Tej');

mail.setTemplateId(et.id);

Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.MassEmailMessage[] { mail });

}

For other object methods of Mass Email Messaging, Click Here