send an email using a template - grails - email

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:
def sendEmail(){
mailService.sendMail {
to "email","**email**"
from "email"
subject "Hi"
body 'Hi'
}
}
in my config.groovy file
grails {
mail {
host = "smtp.gmail.com"
port = 465
username = "email"
password = "pwd"
props = ["mail.smtp.auth":"true",
"mail.smtp.socketFactory.port":"465",
"mail.smtp.socketFactory.class":"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory",
"mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback":"false"]
}
}
I went through another Stack Overflow post on this: Where should i add the mail templates ? is it in the views folder ?
sendMail{
multipart true
to "[hidden email]"
subject "Subject goes here"
html g.render( template: '/emails/mailTemplate')
inline 'springsourceInlineImage', 'image/jpg', new File('./web-app/images/springsource.png')
}
UPDATE
I TREID ADDING A mailTemplate.gsp UNDER EMAILS/ BUT IT DIDNT WORK.
ERROR I GOT Template not found for name [/emails/mailTemplate] and path [/emails/_mailTemplate.gsp]

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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 3

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.