Re: How to use VelocityEmail standalone?

[pascal]

RE: How to use VelocityEmail standalone?looks feasible. I'll give it a try. 

Thx for the info
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:01 AM
  Subject: RE: How to use VelocityEmail standalone?


   I would use the Turbine 2.3 codebase becaouse of the vastly refactored commons 
email.  Grab the correct versions by looking at turbine's project.xml.

  Here is an example: 
   Context velocityContext = new org.apache.velocity.VelocityContext(); 
                          velocityContext.put("subject", subject); 
                          velocityContext.put("visitor", ps.getVisitor()); 
                          velocityContext.put("messages", ps.getMessages()); 
              VelocityHtmlEmail ve = new VelocityHtmlEmail(velocityContext); 
              ve.setMailServer(Turbine.getConfiguration().getString("mail.smtp")); 
              ve.addTo( 
                  daughterboard.getEmployee().getEmail(), 
                  daughterboard.getEmployee().getName()); 
              ve.addCc( 
                  Turbine.getConfiguration().getString("mail_cc_default"), 
                  Turbine.getConfiguration().getString("mail_cc_default")); 
              ve.setFrom( 
                  Turbine.getConfiguration().getString("mail_from"), 
                  Turbine.getConfiguration().getString("mail_from")); 
              ve.setSubject(subject); 
              ve.setHtmlTemplate("email/ScintillationEmail.vm"); 
              ve.send(); 

  Eric 

  -----Original Message----- 
  From: pascal 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: 7/14/03 12:07 PM 
  Subject: How to use VelocityEmail standalone? 

  I've checked the mailing list archive, I saw the example code in the 
  VelocityEmail javadoc and found no other useable resources. 

  So my question remains: how do I use VelocityEmail standalone? (In my 
  case from a Struts web app). With the few bits and pieces I found online 
  I constructed the following setup: 

  I have - amongst others - in WEB-INF/lib the libraries turbine-2.2.jar, 
  velocity-dep-1.3.1.jar and commons-configuration-1.0-dev.jar. 

  I have TurbineResources.properties in the classpath (WEB-INF/classes) 
  which contains one entry: mail.server=192.x.y.z 

  Somewhere in my code, I go: 

      String contextRootRealPath = 
  getServlet().getServletContext().getRealPath(File.separator); 
     
     VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext(); 

     VelocityEmail velocityEmail = new VelocityEmail(); 
     velocityEmail.setTo("The recipient", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); 
     velocityEmail.setFrom("The originator", 
  "[EMAIL PROTECTED]").setSubject("Hope this works"); 
     velocityEmail.setContext(context); 
     
     velocityEmail.setTemplate(contextRootRealPath + "/email/email.vm"); 
     try { 
      velocityEmail.send(); 
     } catch (Exception e) { 
      logger_.debug("Sending email failed", e); 
      
     } 



  No email is received on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email is not stuck on 
  our smtp server. The application does not crash and there is no 
  exception logging. 

  What I am doing wrong? Or, to put it differently: what exactly do I have 
  to do? ;-) 

  Tia! 
  pascal