Start an Email Send Definition

This page contains information on how to start an email send definition.

You can use the SOAP API to start an email send definition from your development environment or another system. This allows you to send an email without accessing Marketing Cloud.

Use the sample code as a model for your own API calls.

You can use the sample code to set up your call to start an email send definition. The code uses the following API calls:

1. Create a simple email send definition.
2. Start the email send.
3. Output the results of your send

The sample code below includes a dynamic From name and email address and returns the JobID.