Dear Magnolians I'm a bit frustrated with the available documentation on the mail module.
We've been sending mails from Magnolia for quite some time now but did most of the work at a low level, i.e. lots of code instead of making use of the nice features the mail module is claiming to have. Now I wanted to have a closer look at the mail module to do it "the proper Magnolia way". Unfortunately the documentation is... well, "thin" would probably be and understatement - or am I missing something? Could someone more experienced than me help me get started? Below you can see where I looked for info so far... and it would be so nice not to have to dig through 1000s of lines of source code just to figure out how the mail templates really work. Thanks! - will Where I looked for info and what I've tried so far: - http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/modules/mail.html - Descibes how to install - Describes setup - Even describes how to uninstall - Points to "Tools" > "Mail" page with zero additional info - "Tools" > "Mail" - "Text message configuration" worked - "Template message configuration" - Template "test-magnolia-no-parameter" - Failed with error message: Error on line 1: The element type "HR" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". - Where is that referenced template that the system is claiming to retrieve from "magnolia:http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor/mails/noparam.html";?! - Template "test-magnolia-with-parameter" - Failed with error message: Error on line 1: The element type "HR" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". - Again: Where can I find the template? - Template "testVelocity" - Failed with error message "Could not send email:file:/Users/will/Documents/Work/Java/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-5.5.26/webapps/magnolia423/WEB-INF/lib/magnolia-module-mail-4.2.3.jar!/testVelocity.html (No such file or directory)" - Template "testFreemarker" - Failed with error message "Error: Expression user is undefined on line 1, column 7 in testFreemarker.html." (apparently the instruction "${user}" is causing the trouble) - Again: Where is the template file? Where do I have to place my template file in order for it to be found by the mail module? - "Html page configuration" - Failed with "Error: null" (info.magnolia.module.mail.commands.MailCommand : Could not send email:null) - http://dev.magnolia-cms.com/ref/4.2.3/apidocs/ - Virtually no javadoc explaining how to use the module - http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/ - A nice concept page for the magnolia module in Mag 4, but other than that... nothing - searching the mailing list archive for "magnolia-module-mail" did not return anything useful - Googling for "magnolia-module-mail" did not return anything useful either ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
