Catalyst::Plugin::Email - Send emails with Catalyst

    use Catalyst 'Email';

    __PACKAGE__->config->{email} = [qw/SMTP smtp.oook.de/];

    $c->email(
        header => [
            From    => 'sri@oook.de',
            To      => 'sri@cpan.org',
            Subject => 'Hello!'
        ],
        body => 'Hello sri'
    );

Send emails with Catalyst and Email::Send and Email::MIME::Creator.

config accepts the same options as Email::Send.

To send using the system's sendmail program, set config like so:

    __PACKAGE__->config->{email} = ['Sendmail'];

To send using authenticated SMTP:

    __PACKAGE__->config->{email} = [
        'SMTP', 
        'smtp.myhost.com', 
        username => $USERNAME, 
        password => $PASSWORD, 
    ];

For different methods of sending emails, and appropriate config options, see Email::Send::NNTP, Email::Send::Qmail, Email::Send::SMTP and Email::Send::Sendmail.

email() accepts the same arguments as Email::MIME::Creator's create().

    $c->email(
        header => [
            To      => 'me@localhost',
            Subject => 'A TT Email',
        ],
        body => $c->subreq( '/render_email' ),
    );

To send a multipart message, include a parts argument containing an arrayref of Email::MIME objects.

    my @parts = (
        Email::MIME->create(
            attributes => {
                content_type => 'application/pdf',
                encoding     => 'quoted-printable',
                name         => 'report.pdf',
            },
            body => $FILE_DATA,
        ),
        Email::MIME->create(
            attributes => {
                content_type => 'text/plain',
                disposition  => 'attachment',
                charset      => 'US-ASCII',
            },
            body => $c->subreq( '/render_email' ),
        ),
    );

    $c->email(
        header => [
            To      => 'me@localhost',
            Subject => 'A TT Email',
        ],
        parts => \@parts,
    );

A common practice is to handle emails using the same template language used for HTML pages. If your view supports the 'render' method (Like the TT view does), you just set the body like this: $c->email( header => [ To => 'me@localhost', Subject => 'A TT Email', ], body => $c->view('TT')->render($c,'mytemplate.tt'), }

If your view doesn't support render, you can just forward to it, then reset the body like this:

    sub send_email : Local {
        my ( $self, $c ) = @_;  
        {
        local $c->stash->{names}   = [ qw/andyg sri mst/ ],
        local $c->stash->{template}= 'mytemplate.tt';   
        $c->forward($c->view('MyView'));
        $c->email(
            header => [
                To      => 'me@localhost',
                Subject => 'A TT Email',
            ],
            body => $c->res->body,
        );
        $c->res->body(undef);
        }
    }

And the template:

    [%- FOREACH name IN names -%]
    Hi, [% name %]!
    [%- END -%]

    --
    Regards,
    Us

Output:

    Hi, andyg!
    Hi, sri!
    Hi, mst!

    --
    Regards,
    Us

Catalyst, Catalyst::Plugin::SubRequest, Email::Send, Email::MIME::Creator

Sebastian Riedel, sri@cpan.org Andy Grundman Carl Franks Marcus Ramberg mramberg@cpan.org

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.