API:EPrints/Email

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NAME

EPrints::Email - Email Utility functions for EPrints.

DESCRIPTION

This package handles sending emails.

send_mail

 EPrints::Utils::send_mail( %properties )

Sends an email.

Required properties:

session - the current session

langid - the id of the language to send the email in.

to_email, to_name - who to send it to

subject - the subject of the message (UTF-8 encoded string)

message - the body of the message as a DOM tree

optional properties:

from_email, from_name - who is sending the email (defaults to the archive admin)

sig - the signature file as a DOM tree

replyto_email, replyto_name

attach - ref to an array of filenames (with full paths) to attach to the message

Returns true if mail sending (appears to have) succeeded. False otherwise.

Uses the config. option "send_email" to send the mail, or if that's not defined sends the email via STMP.

names and the subject should be encoded as utf-8

UNDOCUMENTED METHODS

These methods were found in the source code but didn't have any POD associated with them. This may be because we haven't got around to documenting them yet or it could be because they are internal to the API and not intended for use by other parts of EPrints.