NAME

       Catalyst::View::Email::Template - Send Templated Email from Catalyst

SYNOPSIS

       Sends templated mail, based upon your default view. It captures the output of the
       rendering path, slurps in based on mime-types and assembles a multi-part email using
       Email::MIME::Creator and sends it out.

CONFIGURATION

       WARNING: since version 0.10 the configuration options slightly changed!

       Use the helper to create your view:

           $ script/myapp_create.pl view Email::Template Email::Template

       For basic configuration look at "CONFIGURATION" in Catalyst::View::Email.

       In your app configuration (example in YAML):

           View::Email::Template:
               # Optional prefix to look somewhere under the existing configured
               # template  paths.
               # Default: none
               template_prefix: email
               # Define the defaults for the mail
               default:
                   # Defines the default view used to render the templates.
                   # If none is specified neither here nor in the stash
                   # Catalysts default view is used.
                   # Warning: if you don't tell Catalyst explicit which of your views should
                   # be its default one, C::V::Email::Template may choose the wrong one!
                   view: TT

SENDING EMAIL

       Sending email works just like for Catalyst::View::Email but by specifying the template
       instead of the body and forwarding to your Email::Template view:

           sub controller : Private {
               my ( $self, $c ) = @_;

               $c->stash->{email} = {
                   to          => 'jshirley@gmail.com',
                   cc          => 'abraxxa@cpan.org',
                   from        => 'no-reply@foobar.com',
                   subject     => 'I am a Catalyst generated email',
                   template    => 'test.tt',
                   content_type => 'multipart/alternative'
               };

               $c->forward( $c->view('Email::Template') );
           }

       Alternatively if you want more control over your templates you can use the following idiom
       to override the defaults. If charset and encoding given, the body become properly encoded.

           templates => [
               {
                   template        => 'email/test.html.tt',
                   content_type    => 'text/html',
                   charset         => 'utf-8',
                   encoding        => 'quoted-printable',
                   view            => 'TT',
               },
               {
                   template        => 'email/test.plain.mason',
                   content_type    => 'text/plain',
                   charset         => 'utf-8',
                   encoding        => 'quoted-printable',
                   view            => 'Mason',
               }
           ]

HANDLING ERRORS

       See "HANDLING ERRORS" in Catalyst::View::Email.

METHODS

       generate_part
           Generates a MIME part to include in the email. Since the email is template based every
           template piece is a separate part that is included in the email.

       process
           The process method is called when the view is dispatched to. This creates the
           multipart message and then sends the message contents off to Catalyst::View::Email for
           processing, which in turn hands off to Email::Sender::Simple.

TODO

   ATTACHMENTS
       There needs to be a method to support attachments.  What I am thinking is something along
       these lines:

           attachments => [
               # Set the body to a file handle object, specify content_type and
               # the file name. (name is what it is sent at, not the file)
               { body => $fh, name => "foo.pdf", content_type => "application/pdf" },
               # Or, specify a filename that is added, and hey, encoding!
               { filename => "foo.gif", name => "foo.gif", content_type => "application/pdf", encoding => "quoted-printable" },
               # Or, just a path to a file, and do some guesswork for the content type
               "/path/to/somefile.pdf",
           ]

SEE ALSO

   Catalyst::View::Email - Send plain boring emails with Catalyst
   Catalyst::Manual - The Catalyst Manual
   Catalyst::Manual::Cookbook - The Catalyst Cookbook

AUTHORS

       J. Shirley <jshirley@gmail.com>

       Simon Elliott <cpan@browsing.co.uk>

       Alexander Hartmaier <abraxxa@cpan.org>

LICENSE

       This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.