Azure Communication Service Demos

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Page Type	Languages	Key Services	Tools
Sample	Python PowerShell	Azure Communication Services (ACS)

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Introduction

This is a work-in-progress repository to demonstrate how to use the features of Azure Communication Services.

Prerequisites

• An Azure Subscription - for hosting cloud infrastructure
• Az CLI - for deploying Azure infrastructure as code
• Python - for Python development

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Email

This section uses this guide as a basis to demonstrate how to use Python to send emails with Azure Communication Services' email-as-a-service solution.

The steps to set up and send emails are as follows:

Set up the infrastructure

1. In the infra/acs.ps1 file:

   • Note: Ensure you run az login prior to running any other Az CLI commands.
   • Update the variable names to the resource names you'd like to use.
   • Run the az group create command to create a resource group.
   • Run the az communication create command to create an Azure Communication Services resource (doc).

2. Get the connection string by navigating to the ACS resource that was created and go to the 'Keys' blade.

3. Create an Email Communication Service (via Azure Portal):

   • Follow the steps laid out in this guide.
     • Note: Ensure that the Email Communication Service is created with the same Data Location as the Azure Communication Services resource set up in the previous step.
   • Go to the 'Provision domains' blade of the newly created Email Communication Service and either add a free Azure subdomain or set up a custom domain. This will create an Email Communication Services Domain resource.

4. In Azure Communication Service resource, connect the domain you just created:

   • Follow the steps laid out in this guide.

Configure & run the code

1. Install the dependencies listed in the email/requirements.txt file.
2. In the email/ folder, create a file called connection.txt. Paste the connection string from Step 2 above into the file.
3. Update the sender_address variable in email/send-email.py:
   • Go to the Email Communication Services Domain resource created in Step 3 above. You may edit and retrieve the 'MailFrom' value from here.
   • Update the sender_address variable with the 'MailFrom' value.
4. Update the recipient_address variable in email/send-email.py with your desired recipient email address.
5. Run the code in email/send-email.py.