From: Dimitar Petrov
Hello Thag, I think plugin is the wrong approach here. Plugins seemed to be good idea in the past, but now they are recommended only if you mess with the internals. I think the recommended think to send emails within Catalyst application is either: a) https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::View::Email or https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::View::Email::Template b) create a separe model, like shown here http://modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/07/extracting-a-reusable-catalyst-model.html Cheers, Dimitar As Chromatic said in that article in modernperlbooks.com, it is a good idea to create a standalone script that can send email because it can work in Catalyst apps, and can also work in standalone scripts ran manually or by cron jobs. It can also work with job queues. The module from that article uses Mail::Builder::Simple which can be simply used with something like: use Mail::Builder::Simple; my $mail = Mail::Builder::Simple->new; $mail->send( from => 'm...@host.com', to => 'y...@yourhost.com', subject => 'The subject with UTF-8 chars', plaintext => "Hello,\n\nHow are you?\n", ); Mail::Builder::Simple sets the MIME headers automaticly and also encodes the MIME headers and the HTML and text body of the messages to UTF-8. If you know that you'll never want to send email with a program outside the Catalyst app, you can use Mail::Builder::Simple easier by installing Catalyst::Helper::Model::Email and create a model for sending email with it, using something like: ./script/myapp_create.pl model MyMailer Email SMTP smtp.host.com usr passwd And then you can send email with it using something like: $c->model("MyMailer"->send( from => 'm...@host.com', to => 'y...@yourhost.com', subject => 'The subject with UTF-8 chars', plaintext => "Hello\n\nHow are you?\n\n", ); For more info: https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::Helper::Model::Email and https://metacpan.org/module/Mail::Builder::Simple Octavian
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