Create Exchange Distribution List in C# .NET

readme.md

Read the complete article on how to create and fetch distribution lists from MS Exchange Server in C#: https://blog.aspose.com/2022/03/06/create-exchange-distribution-list-in-csharp/

create-distribution-list.cs

// Connect to Exchange Server
IEWSClient client = EWSClient.GetEWSClient("https://outlook.office365.com/ews/exchange.asmx", "testUser", "pwd", "domain");

// Create a list and set name
ExchangeDistributionList distributionList = new ExchangeDistributionList();
distributionList.DisplayName = "test private list";

// Add members to list
MailAddressCollection members = new MailAddressCollection();
members.Add("address1@host.com");
members.Add("address2@host.com");
members.Add("address3@host.com");

// Create list on Exchange Server 
client.CreateDistributionList(distributionList, members);

fetch-distribution-list.cs

// Connect to Exchange Server
IEWSClient client = EWSClient.GetEWSClient("https://outlook.office365.com/ews/exchange.asmx", "testUser", "pwd", "domain");

// Fetch lists
ExchangeDistributionList[] distributionLists = client.ListDistributionLists();

// Loop through lists and their members
foreach (ExchangeDistributionList distributionList in distributionLists)
{
    MailAddressCollection members = client.FetchDistributionList(distributionList);
    foreach (MailAddress member in members)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(member.Address);
    }
}