Mailer Viewtool

The mailer tool is a simple email sender viewtool for dotCMS.

The following example shows how the mailer tool is mapped in the toolbox.xml file:

	<tool>
		<key>mailer</key>
		<scope>application</scope>
		<class>com.dotcms.rendering.velocity.viewtools.MailerTool</class>
	</tool>

Example#

Send email example using mailer tool:

---
void 			|	init(Object obj) Init Method for the viewtool
String 			|	sendEmail(String to, String from, String subject, String message, Boolean html)  
---  

public String sendEmail(String to,
                        String from,
                        String subject,
                        String message,
                        Boolean html)

Sends an email Example: #set($error = $mailer.sendEmail( 'them@theirdomain.com', 'you@yourdomain.com', 'The Subject', 'The Message', false)) #if($UtilMethods.isSet($error)) ## Custom Error Handling #else

Your message was sent
#end

Parameters: to - email address to send to from - email address to send from subject - subject of the email message - the message to send html - Whether or not to send it in HTML

Returns: Empty if Successful, or the error message otherwise