Why sending a mail using Azure email communication service is too slow?

Question

Hi. We have an azure app that sends email through email communication service. We have noticed that this process is to slow, it takes between 5 an 10 seconds to send a very short confirmation email. The number of sent mails is also small (20 emails per day). We have seen in another post that is possible to use a parameter called WailUntil.Started in order to not wait for all sending process but we dont know how to use this parameter in python. (our app is python) This is the way we send the message right now. poller = client.begin_send(message) result = poller.result() any advice? regards

Answer 1

Hi Efrain ,

To improve email sending speed using Azure Communication Services in Python, consider using the wait_until_started parameter. Here's an example:

from azure.communication.sms import SmsClient

# Initialize your SmsClient
client = SmsClient.from_connection_string("your_connection_string")

# Create the message and send it, using wait_until_started
poller = client.begin_send(
    from_phone_number="sender_phone_number",
    to_phone_numbers=["recipient_phone_number"],
    message="Your message content",
    wait_until_started=True
)

# Get the result without waiting for completion
result = poller.result()

Setting wait_until_started to True allows your code to continue execution without waiting for the entire sending process, potentially reducing latency. Regards, Saravanan Ganesan.