by Taras Matyashovsky

Essential feature of every web application is possibility to send emails. Traditionally when You will look through Grails reference You will find page concerning proposals for email integration in Grails. But approaches mentioned there are not perfect and their implementation in our application was quiet hard. So I decided to look for another solutions and found excellent Grails Mail Plugin. You can easily install it using command:

grails install-plugin mail

Grails Mail Plugin integration is very simple - everything You need is to dynamically inject mail service into Your service. After that You can use its sendMail method for sending email:

class MyService {

    // Dynamic injection happens here.

    MailService mailService

    def someMethod() {

        // Some logic.

        mailService.sendMail {

           to " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "

           from " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "

           subject "Test mail"

           html """Hello!

               This is a test email. """

        }

    }

}

Do not forget to configure Your mail server, configuration is located in grails-app/Config.groovy file. In my example it can be similar to listed below:

grails {

  mail {

    host = "smtp.gmail.com"

    port = 465

    username = " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "

    password = "yourpassword"

    props = ["mail.smtp.auth":"true",        

             "mail.smtp.socketFactory.port":"465",

             "mail.smtp.socketFactory.class":"javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory",

             "mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback":"false"]   

}

One topis is not covered - unit and integration testing of mail service. You will not believe but only thing You need is to initialise mail service in Your integration or unit test and connent it to my service. Short example:

class MyServiceTests extends GrailsUnitTestCase {

    MyService myService

    void setUp() {

         // Do not forget to call super method at first.

        super.setUp()

        // Initialize the my service.

        userService = new UserService()

        // Initialize the mail service and 

        // connect it to my service

        userService.mailService = new MailService()   

    }

    // Some tests.

}

That's all concerning Grails Mail Plugin, hope You enjoyed it.