[Catalyst-dev] RFC: Catalyst::View::Email and Catalyst::View::TemplateEmail

[Jonathan Rockway]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 08:22, Bogdan Lucaciu wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 00:48, J. Shirley wrote:
> > Some discussion with ash in #catalyst revealed that there is a need for a
> > more modern, up to date, best practice, shiny method for emailing from
> > within a Catalyst app.
>
> you'll need to consider
>  - attachements (from files, filehandles, scalarrefs)
>  - html mail
>  - automatically attaching all images in the html mail
>
> I -hate- HTML mail , but unfortunately clients don't.

My advice is to allow a directory structure like:

mail/template.tt
mail/text-html/template.tt

When you say stash->{template} is template.tt, a multipart/alternative 
messagse is created with template.tt as the plain text version and 
text-html/template.tt as the HTML version.  If you have other mime-types, 
those could be rendered and auto-added to the MIME structure.  Convenient.

I would use [% INCLUDE %] to avoid duplicating text between the two versions.

-- 
package JAPH;use Catalyst qw/-Debug/;($;=JAPH)->config(name => do {
$,.=reverse qw[Jonathan tsu rehton lre rekca Rockway][$_].[split //,
";$;"]->[$_].q; ;for 1..4;$,=~s;^.;;;$,});$;->setup;