Docmail's Accessible Hybrid Mail API

Hi all,

We've added some new code samples to the Docmail API page to demonstrate some of the simplicity and power in the new system & make creating your own mailing systems & integrating postcard, letter and greeting card options into websites and software as you please.

There's a mini SDK (and it's source code) available as the "Docmail Zip Library" to make efficiently sending all of the mailing files and settings over in a single ZIP file (using CreateFileMailing) just as easy as using the webservice calls.

Although most of our examples are currently in vb.Net as that's our primary development environment, we've also added an example "using PHP for Hybrid mail, mirroring the vb.Net quick start code, as well as a simple Perl Hybrid mail example which calls the GetBalance method, but is a useful starting point for accessing a SOAP webservice through Perl. There is also a Python Hybrid Mail API wrapper for the Docmail recently published on GIThub.

In vb.Net, we now also have a "Send Postcards in Seconds!" sample code and vs2008 project to demonstrate how shockingly easy it is to create and send a real, physical picture postcard through Docmail's hybrid mail API. Just supply an image, some text and one or more addresses, then submit the order.

We intend to keep the code samples area updated to leave developers to get creative, rather than worrying about the nuts and bolts of using a Hybrid Mail API.

If you've any feedback, or suggestions for new code samples, which languages to include, or new ideas on how to make use of the API, just get in touch through email/phone, comments on this blog, the Docmail forum, or our Facebook page