enhancements

[andrewdavey]

enhancements

[andrewdavey]

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

1. You could add your own implementation of IViewEngine to the MVC ViewEngines collection. That could then pull views from anywhere you like.

2. You can get the generated MailMessage. Use an EmailService object and call CreateMailMessage(email). That will do everything, except sending the email. You can then do what ever you want with it. (And send using SmtpClient instead).

Bcc, CC and Reply-To all work. I'm missing Priority at the moment.

[waynebrantley]

1. I guess what I was suggesting was more general...you request the view, try to locate it, etc - why not just let the developer pass in the string to use as a template?

2. Ok, nice - did not see that anywhere in the examples, etc.

3. Bcc, cc, and replyto.....how do you specify multiple email addresses?

Thanks!

[andrewdavey]

1. Passing in a template string means Postal then has to worry about what template engine that string uses. I could in theory allowing passing in an IView object to render, but I think sticking with using the ViewEngine to find the view is simpler for me.
   The other option is to implement your own IEmailViewRenderer and pass that to the EmailService. That lets you by-pass the ViewEngine stuff altogether then.

2. Good point - I'll have to update the wiki

3. You can specify the same header more than once. For example, Postal calls "mailMessage.Bcc.Add(emailAddress)" for each Bcc header.
   (Again, I should update the wiki for this.)

[andrewdavey]

3. Or comma separate the email addresses in a single header.