> > EmailTool - Send email using a template. Having this functionality can > > make a compelling reason to use Velocity since you can't really do this > > with JSP. Potentially, this could use an already configured > > VelocityEngine in VelocityViewServlet, and/or, it could be completely > > stand alone requiring it's own configured VelocityEngine instance and > > not be dependent on the servlet API. I've heard Turbine has such a tool. > > hmm. something like this could be very cool. my instinct would be to say > it shouldn't be tied to the VVS. while we definitely want it to be able to > work with that, i don't think we should tie people to it. i'm curious that > you called it EmailTool. do you anticipate using this as a tool with the > ToolboxManager et. al.? i'm trying to envision how such functionality would > best be structered/implemented.
Actually I do have a SmtpTool, referenced in my toolbox.xml, that implements an smtp queue. It's usage is sthing like : $SmtpTool.send(email , name , subject , content [ , content-type (html/text) ] ) where content is an url. I'll contribute it if you are interested. CloD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
