mailer

Documentation

Overview

Package mailer provides functions to easily send emails.

This package should be used with or inside a package that helps writing emails like it is done in the package github.com/alexcesaro/mail/gomail

package main

import (
	"log"
	"net/mail"
	"strings"

	"github.com/alexcesaro/mail/mailer"
)

func main() {
	msg := &mail.Message{
		mail.Header{
			"From":         {"alex@example.com"},
			"To":           {"bob@example.com", "cora@example.com"},
			"Subject":      {"Hello!"},
			"Content-Type": {"text/plain"},
		},
		strings.NewReader("Hello, how are you ?"),
	}

	m := mailer.NewMailer("smtp.example.com", "user", "123456", 25)
	if err := m.Send(msg); err != nil { // This will send the email to Bob and Cora
		log.Println(err)
	}
}

Index

• Variables
• type Mailer
  • func NewCustomMailer(auth smtp.Auth, addr string) *Mailer
  • func NewMailer(host string, username string, password string, port int) *Mailer
  • func (m *Mailer) Send(msg *mail.Message) error

Variables

var SendMail = smtp.SendMail

Stubbed out for testing.

Types

type Mailer

type Mailer struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

A Mailer represents an SMTP server.

func NewCustomMailer

func NewCustomMailer(auth smtp.Auth, addr string) *Mailer

NewCustomMailer creates a mailer using any authentication mechanism.

func NewMailer

func NewMailer(host string, username string, password string, port int) *Mailer

NewMailer returns a mailer. The given parameters are used to connect to the SMTP server via a PLAIN authentication mechanism.

func (*Mailer) Send

func (m *Mailer) Send(msg *mail.Message) error

Send sends the emails to the recipients of the message.