ASP.NET Core - Send email without wait

Question

I have an APS.NET Core 5 Web API:

I have this:

await _mailSender.SendMailAsync(entity.Id);

But, I don't want to wait for the email sender to return Ok for client. I want to continue code execution and send email in background.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

I did this using HangFire to queue the email to send.

//send email
BackgroundJob.Enqueue(() => _mailSender.SendMailAsync(entity.Id));