What

mailer is an application to send templated emails. Templates are in the Crinja format (a Jinja derivative).

# Get some help.
mailer -h

Sending a mail

# One-shot email transfer. "login" and "token" are template parameters.
# mailer send <template> <email>
FROM=no-reply@example.com \
	SUBJECT="Activate your email" \
	login=mypseudo \
	token=aabbccdd \
	mailer send activation-email user@home.com

By default, configuration is:

• smtp deamon host is '127.0.0.1', port 25
• template directory is /etc/mailer/templates/
• FROM and SUBJECT (mail object) are retrieved from environment variables

So, in the previous example, without any configuration, the template activation-email refers to the file /etc/mailer/templates/activation-email.j2 (the j2 extension is for Jinja).

The /etc/mailer/templates/activation-email.j2 template could look like this:

Hello and welcome to example.com!

To activate your account, please follow the link bellow:
  https://example.com/user-activation/{{ login }}/{{ token }}

Thanks for trusting us!
Have a good day,
-- 
Staff of example.com.

Configuration

As most programs from Baguette repositories, a configuration file can be used. The configuration file should be either in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/baguette/ (first guess) or in /etc/baguette/.

In mailer, this file is used to configure:

• how to contact the smtp deamon (host and port)
• what directory should be used for templates
• FROM and SUBJECT email fields

An exhaustive example:

# ~/.config/baguette/mailer.yml

# SMTPd configuration.
smtpd_host: localhost
smtpd_port: 25

# Where to find templates, if not in the defaut directory (/etc/mailer/templates/).
templates_directory: /etc/mailer/templates

# Configuration for each template.
templates:
    # Template name, associated to the mail configuration: "from" and "subject" headers.
    # Template names match the template file name in the template directory.
    # In this example, the following template file is:
    # /etc/mailer/templates/example.com-mail-activation-en.j2
    example.com-mail-activation-en:
        from: no-reply@example.com
        subject: Account activation on the example.com website
    example.com-mail-recovery-en:
        from: no-reply@example.com
        subject: Mail recovery for the example.com website