Email addresses facet

In Sitecore 8.x, email addresses are associated with a contact through a property on the contact. The name of the property is Emails.

The following is an example the Emails property on the contact:

"Emails" : {
    "Preferred" : "work",
    "Entries" : {
        "work" : {
            "SmtpAddress" : "thomas@shelbybros.co.uk",
            "BounceCount" : 0
        },
        "home" : {
            "SmtpAddress" : "tommydigs@gmail.com",
            "BounceCount" : 0
        }
    }
}

The Entries property is a dictionary. Each member of the dictionary has a key and a value. The key describes the email address. The value is an object that contains the details of the email address.

In addition to the Entries property, the Emails object has another property named Preferred. The value is the key for one of the email addresses.

In Sitecore 9, email addresses are associated with a contact through a contact facet:

in Sitecore 9, the preferred email address is stored separate from the other email addresses, unlike in Sitecore 8.x where all email addresses are stored in a single dictionary.