package mailer
import (
"bytes"
"embed"
"html/template"
"log"
// "time"
"github.com/wneessen/go-mail"
)
//go:embed "templates"
var templateFS embed.FS
type Mailer struct {
dialer *mail.Client
sender string
}
func New(host string, port int, username, password, sender string) Mailer {
// Initialize a new mail.Dialer instance with the given SMTP server settings. We
// also configure this to use a 5-second timeout whenever we send an email.
dialer, err := mail.NewClient(host,
mail.WithSMTPAuth(mail.SMTPAuthAutoDiscover), mail.WithTLSPortPolicy(mail.TLSMandatory),
mail.WithUsername(username), mail.WithPassword(password),
)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to deliver mail: %s", err)
}
// dialer. = 5 * time.Second
// Return a Mailer instance containing the dialer and sender information.
return Mailer{
dialer: dialer,
sender: sender,
}
}
// Define a Send() method on the Mailer type. This takes the recipient email address
// as the first parameter, the name of the file containing the templates, and any
// dynamic data for the templates as an interface{} parameter.
func (m Mailer) Send(recipient, templateFile string, data interface{}) error {
// Use the ParseFS() method to parse the required template file from the embedded
// file system.
tmpl, err := template.New("email").ParseFS(templateFS, "templates/"+templateFile)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// Execute the named template "subject", passing in the dynamic data and storing the
// result in a bytes.Buffer variable.
subject := new(bytes.Buffer)
err = tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(subject, "subject", data)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// Follow the same pattern to execute the "plainBody" template and store the result
// in the plainBody variable.
plainBody := new(bytes.Buffer)
err = tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(plainBody, "plainBody", data)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// And likewise with the "htmlBody" template.
htmlBody := new(bytes.Buffer)
err = tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(htmlBody, "htmlBody", data)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// Use the mail.NewMessage() function to initialize a new mail.Message instance.
// Then we use the SetHeader() method to set the email recipient, sender and subject
// headers, the SetBody() method to set the plain-text body, and the AddAlternative()
// method to set the HTML body. It's important to note that AddAlternative() should
// always be called *after* SetBody().
msg := mail.NewMsg()
msg.SetAddrHeader("To", recipient)
msg.SetAddrHeader("From", m.sender)
msg.SetGenHeader("Subject", subject.String())
msg.SetBodyString("text/plain", plainBody.String())
msg.AddAlternativeString("text/html", htmlBody.String())
// Call the DialAndSend() method on the dialer, passing in the message to send. This
// opens a connection to the SMTP server, sends the message, then closes the
// connection. If there is a timeout, it will return a "dial tcp: i/o timeout"
// error.
err = m.dialer.DialAndSend(msg)
if err != nil {
return err
}
return nil
}