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@@ -2,104 +2,153 @@ summary: Send HTML and plain text email from your SilverStripe application.
# Email
-SilverStripe has emailing functionality using the built-in mail() function in PHP.
-Features include sending plaintext- and HTML emails, sending bulk emails, subscription, handling bounced back emails.
+Creating and sending email in SilverStripe is done through the [api:Email] and [api:Mailer] classes. This document
+covers how to create an `Email` instance, customize it with a HTML template, then send it through a custom `Mailer`.
## Configuration
-Your PHP configuration needs to include the SMTP module for sending emails.
-If you are not running an SMTP server together with your webserver, you might need to setup PHP with the credentials for
-an external SMTP server (see [PHP documentation for mail()](http://php.net/mail)).
+Out of the box, SilverStripe will use the built-in PHP `mail()` command. If you are not running an SMTP server, you
+will need to either configure PHP's SMTP settings (see [PHP documentation](http://php.net/mail) to include your mail
+server configuration or use one of the third party SMTP services like [Mandrill](https://github.com/lekoala/silverstripe-mandrill)
+and [Postmark](https://github.com/fullscreeninteractive/silverstripe-postmarkmailer).
## Usage
-### Sending combined HTML and Plaintext
-
-By default, emails are sent in both HTML and Plaintext format.
-A plaintext representation is automatically generated from the system
-by stripping HTML markup, or transforming it where possible
-(e.g. `text` is converted to `*text*`).
-
- :::php
- $email = new Email($from, $to, $subject, $body);
- $email->send();
-
-
-The default HTML template is located in `framework/templates/email/GenericEmail.ss`.
-
-### Sending Plaintext only
+### Sending plain text only
:::php
$email = new Email($from, $to, $subject, $body);
$email->sendPlain();
-### Templates
+### Sending combined HTML and plain text
-* Create a SS-template file called, in this example we will use 'MyEmail.ss' inside `mysite/templates/email`.
-* Fill this out with the body text for your email. You can use any [SS-template syntax](/topics/templates) (e.g. `<% loop %>`,
-`<% if %>`, $FirstName etc)
-* Choose your template with **setTemplate()**
-* Populate any custom data into the template before sending with **populateTemplate()**
-
-Example:
+By default, emails are sent in both HTML and Plaintext format. A plaintext representation is automatically generated
+from the system by stripping HTML markup, or transforming it where possible (e.g. `text` is converted
+to `*text*`).
:::php
$email = new Email($from, $to, $subject, $body);
- $email->setTemplate('MyEmail');
+ $email->send();
- // You can call this multiple times or bundle everything into an array, including DataSetObjects
- $email->populateTemplate(Member::currentUser());
+
+The default HTML template for emails is named `GenericEmail` and is located in `framework/templates/email/`. To
+customize this template, copy it to the `mysite/templates/Email/` folder or use `setTemplate` when you create the
+`Email` instance.
+
- $welcomeMsg = 'Thank you for joining on '.date('Y-m-d'.'!');
- $email->populateTemplate(array(
- 'WelcomeMessage' => $welcomeMsg, // Accessible in template via $WelcomeMessage
- ));
+### Templates
+
+HTML emails can use custom templates using the same template language as your website template. You can also pass the
+email object additional information using the `populateTemplate` method.
+
+**mysite/templates/Email/MyCustomEmail.ss**
+
+ :::ss
+ Hi $Member.FirstName
+ You can go to $Link.
+
+The PHP Logic..
+
+ :::php
+ $email = new Email();
+ $email
+ ->setFrom($from)
+ ->setTo($to)
+ ->setSubject($subject)
+ ->setTemplate('MyCustomEmail')
+ ->populateTemplate(new ArrayData(array(
+ 'Member' => Member::currentUser(),
+ 'Link' => $link
+ )));
$email->send();
+
+As we've added a new template file (`MyCustomEmail`) make sure you clear the SilverStripe cache for your changes to
+take affect.
+
-### Subclassing
+## Sub classing
-Class definition:
+To keep your application code clean and your internal API clear, a better approach to generating an email is to create
+a new subclass of `Email` which takes the required dependencies and handles setting the properties itself.
+
+**mysite/code/MyCustomEmail.php**
:::php
Email;
+ $subject = "Welcome to our site.";
+ $link = Director::absoluteBaseUrl();
+
+ parent::__construct($from, $to, $subject);
+
+ $this->populateTemplate(new ArrayData(array(
+ 'Member' => $member->Email,
+ 'Link' => $link
+ )));
+ }
}
-
-Usage:
+Then within your application, usage of the email is much clearer to follow.
:::php
populateTemplate(Member::currentUser()); // This will populate the template, $to, $from etc variables if they exist
- $email->send(); // Will immediately send an HTML email with appropriate plain-text content
+ $member = Member::currentUser();
+
+ $email = new MyEmail($member);
+ $email->send();
-### Administrator Emails
+## Administrator Emails
-You can influence the default sender address of emails through the `Email.admin_email`
-[configuration setting](/topics/configuration). This address is used if the `from` field is empty.
+You can set the default sender address of emails through the `Email.admin_email` [configuration setting](/developer_guides/configuration).
-### Redirecting Emails
+**mysite/_config/app.yml**
-Further [configuration settings](/topics/configuration) relating to email rewriting:
+ :::yaml
+ Email:
+ admin_email: support@silverstripe.org
+
-* `Email.send_all_emails_to` will redirect all emails sent to the given address. Handy for testing!
-* `Email.cc_all_emails_to` and `Email.bcc_all_emails_to` will keep the email going to its original recipients, but
-add an additional recipient in the BCC/CC header. Good for monitoring system-generated correspondence on the live
-systems.
+
+Remember, setting a `from` address that doesn't come from your domain (such as the users email) will likely see your
+email marked as spam. If you want to send from another address think about using the `replyTo` method.
+
+
+## Redirecting Emails
+
+There are several other [configuration settings](/developer_guides/configuration) to manipulate the email server.
+
+* `Email.send_all_emails_to` will redirect all emails sent to the given address. This is useful for testing and staging
+servers where you do not wish to send emails out.
+* `Email.cc_all_emails_to` and `Email.bcc_all_emails_to` will add an additional recipient in the BCC / CC header.
+These are good for monitoring system-generated correspondence on the live systems.
+
+Configuration of those properties looks like the following:
+
+**mysite/_config.php**
:::php
- if(Director::isLive()) Config::inst()->update('Email', 'bcc_all_emails_to', "client@example.com");
- else Config::inst()->update('Email', 'send_all_emails_to', "developer@example.com");
+ if(Director::isLive()) {
+ Config::inst()->update('Email', 'bcc_all_emails_to', "client@example.com");
+ } else {
+ Config::inst()->update('Email', 'send_all_emails_to', "developer@example.com");
+ }
+### Setting custom replyTo
+
+ :::php
+ $email = new Email(..);
+ $email->replyTo('me@address.com');
### Setting Custom Headers
@@ -111,13 +160,59 @@ $value)**
$email->addCustomHeader('HeaderName', 'HeaderValue');
..
+
+See this [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail#Message_header) entry for a list of header names.
+
-See [Wikipedia E-mail Message header](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail#Message_header) for a list of header names.
-
-### Newsletters
+## Newsletters
The [newsletter module](http://silverstripe.org/newsletter-module) provides a UI and logic to send batch emails.
+## Custom Mailers
+
+SilverStripe supports changing out the underlying web server SMTP mailer service through the `Email::set_mailer()`
+function. A `Mailer` subclass will commonly override the `sendPlain` and `sendHTML` methods to send emails through curl
+or some other process that isn't the built in `mail()` command.
+
+
+There are a number of custom mailer add-ons available like [Mandrill](https://github.com/lekoala/silverstripe-mandrill)
+and [Postmark](https://github.com/fullscreeninteractive/silverstripe-postmarkmailer).
+
+
+In this example, `LocalMailer` will take any email's going while the site is in Development mode and save it to the
+assets folder instead.
+
+**mysite/code/LocalMailer.php**
+
+ :::php
+