This article assumes you are familiar with Elixir and the mix and iex CLIs. We also assume that you have created an API key with the "Send via SMTP" permission.
This article will show you how to use SparkPost via SMTP with Elixir and the Mailman library.
mix new myapp cd myapp
Add the dependencies to your mix.exs file:
defmodule MyApp.Mixfile do
# ... omitted for brevity
defp deps do
[
{:mailman, "~> 0.2.0"},
{:eiconv, github: "zotonic/eiconv"}
]
end
end
Install the dependencies:
mix deps.get
Next up, create an Elixir module that uses Mailman, an abstraction on top of Erlang's gen_smtp library. With Mailman you create a context and an email. Think of the context as the configuration you use to connect to SparkPost, and the email as the message you are going to send. You then invoke the Mailman.deliver method and pass it both the email and the context.
Create a new file called mailer.ex with the following contents and save it in lib/myapp/mailer.ex, replacing the values with your information:
defmodule MyApp.Mailer do
@moduledoc """
Sample module for sending email through SparkPost using Mailman.
## Examples
iex> MyApp.Mailer.deliver
{:ok, "FULLY FORMED RFC EMAIL WILL BE HERE"}
"""
@doc """
Sends a message using Mailman.
"""
def deliver do
email = %Mailman.Email{
subject: "Using SparkPost with Elixir!",
from: "elixir@sparkpostbox.com",
to: [ "someone@example.com" ],
text: "Sending using SparkPost, Elixir, and Mailman.",
html: "
Sending using SparkPost, Elixir, and Mailman.
"
}
Mailman.deliver(email, config)
end
@doc """
Sets up the Mailman context for use with Mailman.deliver.
"""
def config do
%Mailman.Context{
config: %Mailman.SmtpConfig{
relay: "smtp.sparkpostmail.com",
username: "SMTP_Injection",
password: "YOUR-API-KEY",
port: 587,
tls: :always,
auth: :always,
ssl: false
},
composer: %Mailman.EexComposeConfig{}
}
end
end
In your terminal, test out the deliver method using iex:
$ iex -S mix
iex(1)> MyApp.Mailer.deliver
{:ok, "FULLY FORMED RFC EMAIL WILL BE HERE"}
You are now ready to start sending email through SparkPost using Elixir. Modify the deliver method above as you'd like and call it from wherever you'd like in your application. The Mailman.deliver method returns either an error tuple or an ok tuple. Check out Mailman's source code on github for more info.