sendmail

Go sendmail

This package implements the classic method of sending emails, well known from PHP. It's stupid simple and it works not only with Sendmail, but also with other MTAs, like Postfix, sSMTP, or mhsendmail, which provide a compatible interface.

• it separates email headers from email body,
• encodes UTF-8 headers like Subject, From, To
• makes it easy to use text/template
• doesn't require any SMTP configuration,
• can write email body to a custom io.Writer to simplify testing
• by default, it just uses /usr/sbin/sendmail (but can be changed if need be)

Installation

go get -u github.com/meehow/sendmail

Usage

package main

import (
	"io"
	"log"
	"net/mail"

	"github.com/meehow/sendmail"
)

func main() {
	sm := sendmail.Mail{
		Subject: "Cześć",
		From:    &mail.Address{"Michał", "me@example.com"},
		To: []*mail.Address{
			{"Ktoś", "info@example.com"},
			{"Ktoś2", "info2@example.com"},
		},
	}
	io.WriteString(&sm.Text, ":)\r\n")
	if err := sm.Send(); err != nil {
		log.Println(err)
	}
}

Instead of io.WriteString, you can execute a template:

tpl := template.Must(template.New("email").Parse(`Hello {{.Name}}!`))
tpl.ExecuteTemplate(&sm.Text, "email", &struct{ Name string }{"Dominik"})

ToDo

• HTML emails
• multipart emails (HTML + Text)
• attachments
• inline attachments

Credits

This is a fork of sendmail by Michał Adamski. It adds changes documented in this PR, but so far they haven't been merged upstream.