Retrieve rendered mail content

[danielc.roth]

Hi,

I use renderer.render(/my/mail.xhtml) quite often and am very satisfied with this approach of sending mail. Now I'd like to retrieve the full raw rendered mail body (including headers etc.). How is this achieved?

Cheers

[nickarls]

Well, you could set mailsession debug to true and the mail might end up somewhere in a log or you might add a debug-mailbox to the cc-list but I think it might be a little hard to intercept programmatically in realtime.

Of course, if you are OK with modified Seam code it should be pretty easy to add an observer that passes you the mail right before it is sent.

[pmuir]

Create a new mail transport that you control the endpoint of (see for example org.jboss.seam.mock.MockTransport), register it in /META-INF/javamail.providers, and tell the MailSession to use it by calling MailSession.instance().setTransport(name);

[danielc.roth]

Worked like a charm, except for 'MailSession.instance().setTransport(name)', since 'transport' only  is gettable and needs to be set in components.xml. (There is some info about that in MockTransport.java)

I'll subtract 1 star due to that misinformation ;-)

[pmuir]

Oh yeah, as MailSession is @Unwrap ;-)