Hi,
having been using the Mailer taglib for some while to send out all the
emails from our sites and it has become obvious that there are a number of
limitations and problems with it, specifically:
- You cannot produce a multi-part plain text and HTML email. This means
you can send decent mails and help them get through spam filters by
avoiding obvious problems (eg HTML only mails).[Feature]
- Attaching files seems to conflict with Tomcat's tag pooling, so if you
attach a file then every time the tag is run, the file is attached an
extra time to the email, thus by say the 5th run of it, there are 5
attachments of the same file. [Bug]
- You cannot set the filename of a file you attach to an arbitrary one.
This means if you are attaching from a URL say with some parameters, you
get a pretty nasty filename. [Feature]
To this end, I have written the necessary code to achieve the features and
fix the bug. It has meant changing MailTag, MessageTag, AttachTag and
SendTag, as well as adding an attribute to the taglib.tld for the
AttachTag (called filename). The new version works exactly the same as
before but you can now put one or two message tags within the body of the
mail tag:
<mailer:mail server="localhost">
<mailer:setrecipient type="to">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</mailer:setrecipient>
<mailer:from>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</mailer:from>
<mailer:subject>Subject</mailer:subject>
<mailer:message type="text">
This is a test email message.
</mailer:message>
<mailer:message type="html">
<html>
<body>
<p>This is a test email message.</p>
</body>
</html>
</mailer:message>
<mailer:attach url="" filename="yourfile.html">
http://localhost/getmyfiletosend.html?fileId=123
</mailer:attach>
<mailer:send/>
</mailer:mail>
What I don't know is how to contribute these features. Anyone got any
help here or can someone do it for me? I guess it's really a new point
version rather than a patch, though it is of course backwards compatible.
cheers
Pete
Kiss Technologies
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