AWA_Mail

Mail module

Mail Module

The AWA.Mail module allows an application to format and send a mail to users. This module does not define any web interface. It provides a set of services and methods to send a mail when an event is received. All this is done through configuration. The module defines a set of specific ASF components to format and prepare the email.

Configuration

The mail module needs some properties to configure the SMTP server.

Configuration	Default	Description
mail.smtp.host	localhost	Defines the SMTP server host name
mail.smtp.port	25	Defines the SMTP connection port
mail.smtp.enable	1	Defines whether sending email is enabled or not

Sending an email

Sending an email when an event is posted can be done by using an XML configuration. Basically, the mail module uses the event framework provided by AWA. The XML definition looks like:

<on-event name="user-register">
  <action>#{userMail.send}</action>
  <property name="template">/mail/register-user-message.xhtml</property>
</on-event>

With this definition, the mail template /mail/register-user-message.xhtml is formatted by using the event and application context when the user-register event is posted.

Components

The AWA.Mail.Components package defines several UI components that represent a mail message in an ASF view. The components allow the creation, formatting and sending of a mail message using the same mechanism as the application presentation layer. Example:

<f:view xmlns="mail:http://code.google.com/p/ada-awa/mail">
  <mail:message>
    <mail:subject>Welcome</mail:subject>
    <mail:to name="Iorek Byrnison">Iorek.Byrnison@svalbard.com</mail:to>
    <mail:body>
        ...
    </mail:body>
  </mail:message>
</f:view>

When the view which contains these components is rendered, a mail message is built and initialized by rendering the inner components. The body and other components can use other application UI components to render useful content. The email is send after the mail:message has finished to render its inner children.

The mail:subject component describes the mail subject.

The mail:to component define the mail recipient. There can be several recepients.

The mail:body component contains the mail body.

Mail Recipients

The AWA.Mail.Components.Recipients package defines the UI components to represent the To, From, Cc and Bcc recipients.

The mail message is retrieved by looking at the parent UI component until a UIMailMessage component is found. The mail message recipients are initialized during the render response JSF phase, that is when Encode_End are called.

Mail Messages

The AWA.Mail.Components.Messages package defines the UI components to represent the email message with its recipients, subject and body.

The mail message is retrieved by looking at the parent UI component until a UIMailMessage component is found. The mail message recipients are initialized during the render response JSF phase, that is when Encode_End are called.

Ada Beans

| Name | Description |

Name	Description
:---------------	:--------------------------------------------------------------------------
userMail	Bean used to send an email with a specific template to the user.
userMail	Bean used to send an email with a specific template to the user.

Configuration

Name	Description
openid.realm	The REALM URL used by OpenID providers to verify the validity of the verification callback.
	http://localhost:8080#{contextPath}/auth

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