Bamboo.Mailer (bamboo v2.3.0) View Source

Functions for delivering emails using adapters and delivery strategies.

Adds deliver_now/1, deliver_now!/1, deliver_later/1 and deliver_later!/1 functions to the mailer module in which it is used.

Bamboo ships with several adapters. It is also possible to create your own adapter.

See the "Getting Started" section of the README for an example of how to set up and configure a mailer for use.

Example

Creating a Mailer is as simple as defining a module in your application and using the Bamboo.Mailer.

# some/path/within/your/app/mailer.ex
defmodule MyApp.Mailer do
  use Bamboo.Mailer, otp_app: :my_app
end

The mailer requires some configuration within your application.

# config/config.exs
config :my_app, MyApp.Mailer,
  adapter: Bamboo.MandrillAdapter, # Specify your preferred adapter
  api_key: "my_api_key" # Specify adapter-specific configuration

Also you will want to define an email module for building email structs that your mailer can send. See [Bamboo.Email] for more information.

# some/path/within/your/app/email.ex
defmodule MyApp.Email do
  import Bamboo.Email

  def welcome_email do
    new_email(
      to: "john@example.com",
      from: "support@myapp.com",
      subject: "Welcome to the app.",
      html_body: "<strong>Thanks for joining!</strong>",
      text_body: "Thanks for joining!"
    )
  end
end

You are now able to send emails with your mailer module where you see fit within your application.

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Functions

build_config(mailer, otp_app, optional_overrides \\ %{})

deliver_later(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email in the background.

deliver_later!(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email in the background.

deliver_now(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email right away.

deliver_now!(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email right away.

normalize_addresses(email)

Wraps to, cc and bcc addresses in a list and normalizes email addresses.

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build_config(mailer, otp_app, optional_overrides \\ %{})

deliver_later(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email in the background.

Call your mailer with deliver_later/1 to send an email using the configured deliver_later_strategy. If no deliver_later_strategy is set, Bamboo.TaskSupervisorStrategy will be used. See Bamboo.DeliverLaterStrategy to learn how to change how emails are delivered with deliver_later/1.

If the email is successfully scheduled for delivery, this function will return an {:ok, email}.

If the email is invalid, this function will return an {:error, error} tuple.

deliver_later!(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email in the background.

Same as deliver_later/2 but does not return an ok tuple and raises on errors.

If successful, this function only returns the Email struct.

If the email is invalid, this function raises an error.

deliver_now(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email right away.

Call your mailer with deliver_now/1 to send an email right away. Call deliver_later/1 if you want to send in the background.

Pass in an argument of response: true if you need access to the response from delivering the email.

A successful email delivery returns an ok tuple with the Email struct and the response (if response: true) from calling deliver with your adapter.

A failure returns {:error, error} tuple.

Having the response returned from your adapter is useful if you need access to any data sent back from your email provider in the response.

{:ok, email, response} = Email.welcome_email |> Mailer.deliver_now(response: true)

Pass in an argument of config: %{} if you would like to dynamically override any keys in your application's default Mailer configuration.

Email.welcome_email
|> Mailer.deliver_now(config: %{username: "Emma", smtp_port: 2525})

deliver_now!(email, opts \\ [])

Deliver an email right away.

Same as deliver_now/2 but does not return an ok/error tuple.

If successful, this function returns the Email struct or an Email, response tuple when setting response: true.

On failure, this function raises an error.

normalize_addresses(email)

Wraps to, cc and bcc addresses in a list and normalizes email addresses.

Also formats the from address. Email normalization/formatting is done by implementations of the [Bamboo.Formatter] protocol.