send multiple emails with mailer?

[craayzie]

I've installed the mailer extension and it works great! I'd like to
send a "thank you for contacting us" email to the form submitter in
addition to receiving a notification email letting me know that
they've submitted a form. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to send
multiple emails with mailer ..

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

[Marc]

You could always use https://github.com/dirkkelly/radiant-forms-extension
and create an add-on which uses different page parts to the built in
form mail add-on to send the other email.

I'm in the process of creating an add-on to store the form results in
a table. See radiant-forms-extension/app/models/form_mail.rb for the
built in add-on

The trick is that add-ons are called in order expressed in the
'config' page part.

eg.

storing:
extension: store # my custom add-on, could always dup the form mail
add-on; see the source
result: *email_field_references…*
mailing:
extension: mail # usual example in documentation
fields:
from: person[email]
to: person[email]
subject: contact[subject]
reply_to: person[email]


Ideally if the built in form mail code was augmented to take an
optional prefix then multiple instances of the add-on could be used…

e.g.
mailing_user:
extension: mail # uses usual page parts: content, etc.
fields:
from: person[email]
to: person[email]
subject: contact[subject]
reply_to: person[email]

internal_mailer:
extension: mail
prefix: 'internal-' # would use page parts: internal-content, etc.
from: em...@email.com
to: em...@email.com
reply_to: em...@email.com
fields:
subject: contact[subject]

Regards,

Marc

[craayzie]

Thanks for replying Marc. I could definitely go this route .. I'm
curious though - is there no way to do this w/ Mailer?

The solution you describe seems like a work-around as opposed to the
standard/recommended way one would do it. Do I have the wrong
impression or is this the recommended way of sending multiple emails
upon form submission w/ Radiant?

On Feb 22, 3:25 pm, Marc <marc.bosc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could always usehttps://github.com/dirkkelly/radiant-forms-extension

[john]

you can do it with the mailer extension. in the mailer part try:

subject: "multiple recipients example"

from_field: email

redirect_to: /

recipients:

  - a...@example.com

  - b...@example.net

[craayzie]

Thanks John - I'm actually interested in sending two totally separate
emails. One to myself notifying me that a form was submitted and
another notifying the form submitter that I received their submission.

Is this possible to set up w/ Mailer?

Thanks for replying :)

[Marc]

Umm, far be it for me to express what is the standard / recommended
Radiant Way™. It is still very early days for me and Radiant (not to
mention blowing the dust off my Ruby and Rails knowledge).

I just saw it as a way to achieve multiple behaviour from the one
transaction without forking the code. That said many people do seem to
fork things to get what they want, and push back if they are generous.
The prefix addition would be a natural example of forking rather than
just creating an additional extension, in your case.

I've used mailer for a simple contact form. My cursory look at the
code didn't suggest a clean way to be able to use the one form
submission to generate two separate emails.

Marc

[craayzie]

If someone could jump in and provide guidance on how to best implement
sending multiple emails upon form submission that would be huge. I'd
hate to spend time working on an implementation only to figure out
afterwards that it wasn't the best approach.

Marc - your suggestion makes a lot of sense. Just want to make sure
I'm not missing anything before going that route :P

[William Ross]

On 27 Feb 2011, at 19:16, craayzie wrote:

> If someone could jump in and provide guidance on how to best implement
> sending multiple emails upon form submission that would be huge. I'd
> hate to spend time working on an implementation only to figure out
> afterwards that it wasn't the best approach.

My advice, for what it's worth, would be to fork the mailer extension, make the very simple changes required to specify several messages in the 'mailer' part, and request that they are pulled.

best,

will

[craayzie]

Wow. Ok. I've never forked anything before and I know very little Ruby
but I'm willing to take a shot at it if it's the "right" way to go :P
If anyone else has guidance on how to best proceed please let me know.
Otherwise I'll consider both Will's and Marc's suggestions and decide
which one makes the most sense for me. I like the idea of forking the
extension and making a contribution but I'm also concerned about the
amount of time it will take me to make that happen given how new I am
to RoR/Radiant.

Thanks for all the help guys.

[Jim Gay]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:05 PM, craayzie <fles...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow. Ok. I've never forked anything before and I know very little Ruby
> but I'm willing to take a shot at it if it's the "right" way to go :P
> If anyone else has guidance on how to best proceed please let me know.
> Otherwise I'll consider both Will's and Marc's suggestions and decide
> which one makes the most sense for me. I like the idea of forking the
> extension and making a contribution but I'm also concerned about the
> amount of time it will take me to make that happen given how new I am
> to RoR/Radiant.
>
> Thanks for all the help guys.

Get started and post any questions you have if you run into trouble.

>
> On Feb 27, 1:35 pm, William Ross <w...@spanner.org> wrote:
>> On 27 Feb 2011, at 19:16, craayzie wrote:
>>
>> > If someone could jump in and provide guidance on how to best implement
>> > sending multiple emails upon form submission that would be huge. I'd
>> > hate to spend time working on an implementation only to figure out
>> > afterwards that it wasn't the best approach.
>>
>> My advice, for what it's worth, would be to fork the mailer extension, make the very simple changes required to specify several messages in the 'mailer' part, and request that they are pulled.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> will
>

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