bamboo v0.7.0 Bamboo.Email

Contains functions for composing emails.

Bamboo separates composing emails from delivering them. This separation emails easy to test and makes things like using a default layout, or a default from address easy to do. This module is for creating emails. To actually send them, use Bamboo.Mailer.

Handling email addresses

The from, to, cc and bcc addresses accept a string, a 2 item tuple {name, address}, or anything else that you create that implements the Bamboo.Formatter protocol. The to, cc and bcc fields can also accepts a list of any combination of strings, 2 item tuples or anything that implements the Bamboo.Formatter protocol. See Bamboo.Formatter for more info.

Simplest way to create a new email

defmodule MyApp.Email do
  import Bamboo.Email

  def welcome_email(user) do
    new_email(
      from: "me@app.com",
      to: user,
      subject: "Welcome!",
      text_body: "Welcome to the app",
      html_body: "<strong>Welcome to the app</strong>"
    )
  end
end

Extracting common parts (default layout, default from address, etc.)

Let’s say you want all emails to have the same from address. Here’s how you could do that

defmodule MyApp.Email do
  import Bamboo.Email

  def welcome_email(user) do
    # Since new_email/1 returns a struct you can update it with Kernel.struct!/2
    struct!(base_email,
      to: user,
      subject: "Welcome!",
      text_body: "Welcome to the app",
      html_body: "<strong>Welcome to the app</strong>"
    )

    # or you can use functions to build it up step by step
    base_email
    |> to(user)
    |> subject("Welcome!")
    |> text_body("Welcome to the app")
    |> html_body("<strong>Welcome to the app</strong>")
  end

  def base_email do
    new_email(from: "me@app.com")
  end
end

Summary

Types

address()

address_list()

t()

Functions

all_recipients(email)

Returns a list of all recipients (to, cc and bcc)

bcc(email, attr)

Sets the bcc on the email

cc(email, attr)

Sets the cc on the email

from(email, attr)

Sets the from on the email

get_address(invalid_address)

Gets the just the email address from a normalized email address

html_body(email, attr)

Sets the html_body on the email

new_email(attrs \\ [])

Used to create a new email

put_header(email, header_name, value)

Adds a header to the email

put_private(email, key, value)

Adds a key/value to the private key of the email

subject(email, attr)

Sets the subject on the email

text_body(email, attr)

Sets the text_body on the email

to(email, attr)

Sets the to on the email

Types

address :: String.t | {String.t, String.t}

address_list :: nil | address | [address] | any

t :: %Bamboo.Email{assigns: %{optional(atom) => any}, bcc: address_list, cc: address_list, from: term, headers: %{optional(String.t) => String.t}, html_body: nil | String.t, private: %{optional(atom) => any}, subject: nil | String.t, text_body: nil | String.t, to: address_list}

Functions

all_recipients(email)

Specs

all_recipients(Bamboo.Email.t) ::
  [address] |
  no_return

Returns a list of all recipients (to, cc and bcc).

bcc(email, attr)

Specs

bcc(Bamboo.Email.t, address_list) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Sets the bcc on the email.

You can pass in a string, list of strings, or anything that implements the Bamboo.Formatter protocol.

new_email
|> bcc(["sally@example.com", "james@example.com"])

cc(email, attr)

Specs

cc(Bamboo.Email.t, address_list) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Sets the cc on the email.

You can pass in a string, list of strings, or anything that implements the Bamboo.Formatter protocol.

new_email
|> cc(["sally@example.com", "james@example.com"])

from(email, attr)

Specs

from(Bamboo.Email.t, address_list) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Sets the from on the email.

You can pass in a string, list of strings, or anything that implements the Bamboo.Formatter protocol.

new_email
|> from(["sally@example.com", "james@example.com"])

get_address(invalid_address)

Specs

get_address(address) :: String.t | no_return

Gets the just the email address from a normalized email address

Normalized email addresses are 2 item tuples {name, address}. This gets the address part of the tuple. Use this instead of calling elem(address, 1) so that if Bamboo changes how email addresses are represented your code will still work

Examples

Bamboo.Email.get_address({"Paul", "paul@thoughtbot.com"}) # "paul@thoughtbot.com"

html_body(email, attr)

Sets the html_body on the email

new_email(attrs \\ [])

Specs

new_email(Enum.t) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Used to create a new email

If called without arguments it is the same as creating an empty %Bamboo.Email{} struct. If called with arguments it will populate the struct with given attributes.

Example

# Same as %Bamboo.Email{from: "support@myapp.com"}
new_email(from: "support@myapp.com")

put_header(email, header_name, value)

Specs

put_header(Bamboo.Email.t, String.t, String.t) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Adds a header to the email

Example

put_header(email, "Reply-To", "support@myapp.com")

put_private(email, key, value)

Specs

put_private(Bamboo.Email.t, atom, any) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Adds a key/value to the private key of the email

This is mostly used to implement specific functionality for a particular adapter. It will rarely be used directly from your code. Internally this is used to set Mandrill specific params for the MandrillAdapter and it’s also used to store the view module, template and layout when using Bamboo.Phoenix.

Example

put_private(email, :tags, "welcome-email")

subject(email, attr)

Sets the subject on the email

text_body(email, attr)

Sets the text_body on the email

to(email, attr)

Specs

to(Bamboo.Email.t, address_list) :: Bamboo.Email.t

Sets the to on the email.

You can pass in a string, list of strings, or anything that implements the Bamboo.Formatter protocol.

new_email
|> to(["sally@example.com", "james@example.com"])