Quite a long time ago I talked about setting envelope sender addresses so that I could send mailshots and get back any bounces in a useful way. The missing component to it was to process those bounces within my application. Here, finally, is my write up of how I did this.
After much searching I eventually found the excellent SubEtha …
I have previously written about setting envelope senders when sending email in grails and following comments made on that post I did actually get around to submitting a patch to the plugin.
However a change to that patch was suggested and before I managed to implement it, the mail plugin underwent a fairly large refactoring which meant I needed to …
I would have expected the desire to set a specific envelope sender address for mails from a web-app to be fairly common. However finding information on how to do it with the Grails mail plugin (ie Spring mail (wrappers for JavaMail)) proved much harder than I expected.
In fact, I ended up reading the source code!
It turns out that …
A simple mail shot script in groovy...
Runs on Debian Lenny with just a standard openjdk-6-jdk installed, groovy 1.7.2 added by hand and everything else pulled in by Grape.
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The Grails mail plugin is an invaluable addition to most Grails based sites - it's a rare website that doesn't need to send email. Some really useful features have been sitting on it's todo list for a while, but it still does a lot as it is.
(Examples below are mostly stolen from the plugin documentation.)
It lets you send a …
Unfortunately I must admit that a nicely formatted HTML email looks rather better and more catchy as a newsletter than a simple string of plain text. This goes against my general email preference, but even I have relented in recent times and started allowing my mail client to display HTML email (although I still never send it)!
So with this …