Send email from Pharo with Postmark
Written on December 29 2011.
This blog post was written a long time ago and may not reflect my current opinion or might be technically out of date. Read with a grain of salt.
I recently needed to send emails from a Pharo image. There is a SMTP client integrated in the standard libray but I wanted to wrap the excellent Postmark REST API.
You can load it from SqueakSource 3:
Gofer it
url: 'http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/postmark';
package: 'ConfigurationOfPostMark';
load.
(Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfPostMark) project stableVersion load.
And you can use it like:
| email interface |
email := PMEmail new
from: 'francois@wapict.be';
to: 'francois@yopmail.com';
subject: 'Test Application';
textBody: 'Yeah baby';
yourself.
interface := PMInterface new.
interface apiKey: 'blopblop'.
interface send: email.
The implementation is really basic and does not handle attachments at the moment. I use it on a staging application that will probably be in production in January. I will see how it behaves under small load and improve it if needed.
edit: you can now attach files to your emails !