How can I send an email from the D7 UI to specified email addresses?
I want to type in some text, type in some recipient addresses, and click send to send it from the site's address.
asked Jul 1, 2015 at 23:01
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An easy way could be using Rules and a custom content type.
The content type should have a title which can be used as the email title, a body for email body, and a field to hold email address(es) (or perhaps a reference field to site users or roles).
Then configure a new rule. Select new content event, add a filter to restrict to defined content type, then as an action select send email. Map the proper inputs and you are done.
answered Jul 1, 2015 at 23:12
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for sending email to non users you can replace your user reference field with email address field or you can have both , Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 23:46
There are innumerable ways to accomplish this. If you don't need to track the outgoing mail (keeping a copy on the server), I would do it this way:
in a custom module, create a custom form containing the email elements (to, body, etc) inside a custom page
use a module such as Simple Mail to create the actual mail
A module to simplify sending emails with Drupal.
There are many great modules for complex email handling and sending scenarios, or email templating, and Drupal core handles emails pretty well by itself. However, for many sites, a radically simplified email sending system is helpful.
This is probably a more advanced method fo accomplishing this, but if you haven't yet, and want to get into custom module creation, this is farely simple and would prove a good starter project. This has an advantage of being small and lightweight
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This is the answer to the original question. But if all recipients can be Drupal users, it will smoothen out the user experience. See my answer.– DanielCommented Jul 2, 2015 at 0:50
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@Daniel - that's irrelevant, since OP doesn't want to limit it to Drupal users according to his comment on your answer, so I fail to see why you would bring it up in my answer - It's not our job to push an agenda on UI and UX - they clearly want it a specific way with maximum versatility– GeoffCommented Jul 2, 2015 at 1:06
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Geoff, my answer was not supposed to be THE answer. Merely a suggestion. I pointed this out in the first sentence of both my answer, and made mention of it in my comment above.– DanielCommented Jul 2, 2015 at 1:18
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@Daniel fair enough, but I don't get that out of anything you have written at all, just a miscommunication then– GeoffCommented Jul 2, 2015 at 1:23
Drupal isn't exactly meant as an email client, instead try doing it in a Drupal way.
For example:
- Enter a username for a recipient, add body, then send. Give Views Send a shot.
- Go to a user page, add body, then send. As in the bundled contact module.
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Please, a little more elaboration on your first bullet...also not necessarily sending to users. Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 23:21
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when including modules as part of an answer, please include a link to and description of the module for easier reading– GeoffCommented Jul 2, 2015 at 1:06