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How can one handle email related communications pragmatically in Erlang/OTP?
Using bash, python or Perl scripts, its possible for one to send out emails. However, in Erlang, i have not yet found an Application or built in function dedicated to sending and/or receiving emails on behalf of other applications.
In yaws, there is a mail application located in the applications path of the web server.However, on the yaws home page, there is no documentation dedicated to this application. In Nitrogen Web framework, i have found nothing yet useful as far as email protocols are concerned.
If any one knows of a library which i can use for sending and/or receiving mails pragmatically, could please direct me. Also there could be unofficial implementations as well that i do not know of.
thanks, in advance
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I've been successfully using smtp_fsm.erl for sending emails (not exactly this version, but this one is publicly accessible).
Quick search showed some other smtp- and email-related packages, but I don't have experience with any of these.
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If you want to send emails with Erlang, you should take a look at the transactional email service AlphaMail.
Here is an example of how to send an email with the AlphaMail module for Erlang:
Service = alphamail:email_service("YOUR-ACCOUNT-API-TOKEN-HERE").
Payload = alphamail:message_payload(
2, % Project id
alphamail:email_contact(<<"Sender Name">>, <<"[email protected]">>), % Sender
alphamail:email_contact(<<"Joe E. Receiver">>, <<"[email protected]">>, 1234), % Receiver (with receiver id)
% Any JSON serializable payload data
[
{"userId", 1234},
{"name", {struct, [
{"first", "Joe"},
{"last", "E. Receiver"},
]}},
{"dateOfBirth", 1989}
]
).
alphamail:queue(Service, Payload).
And as your HTML/Comlang template:
<html>
<body>
<b>Name:</b> <# payload.name.first " " payload.name.last #><br>
<b>Date of Birth:</b> <# payload.dateOfBirth #><br>
<# if (payload.userId != null) { #>
<a href="/sign-up">Sign Up Free!</a>
<# } else { #>
<a href="/login?id=<# payload.userId #>">Sign In</a>
<# } #>
</body>
</html>
Disclosure: I'm one of the developers behind AlphaMail
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