send an email using a template - grails

Question

I want to send an email using a template. I want to have a GSP file where i could style it, and send the email. Currently the send mail function is as follows:

Answer 1

well, you can try this code...

mailService.sendMail {
            to user.email
            from "email@test.com"
            subject "MySubject"
            body(view:'/emails/mailTemplate', model: [a:A])
        }

here mailTemplate.gsp is in view/emails. In body of mail service you can use render syntax. then add '<%@ page contentType="text/html" %>' in top of mailTemplate.gsp

Answer 2

Well looking at your code, everything looks good enough.

html g.render(template : '/path/to/template')

should render your template and it will become the body of your mail message.

Have you made sure that you made your template as _template. Since all the gsp's that start with (_) are only considered as a template.

You should also make all the styling(css) inline so that it gets rendered without errors in all mail providers.

Answer 3

You can use groovyPageRenderer.render() to parse your email. Below, an example:

class MailingService {

    def groovyPageRenderer
    def mailService

    def yourFunction(User user) {

        def content = groovyPageRenderer.render(view: '/mails/myTemplate')
        mailService.sendMail {
            to user.email
            from "email@test.com"
            subject "MySubject"
            html(content)
        }
    }
}

In this case, the template is here: /views/mails/MyTemplateFile.gsp

Hope this helps.

Edit: And the render could be used with a model. Example:

groovyPageRenderer.render(view:'/mails/myTemplate',model:[user:user])

Edit2: I forgot to add the mailService in my first reply