Sihl Email

Email service

The email service provides API for sending emails. Currently SMTP and Sendgrid are supported.

Installation

Backend

First, choose a backend in service/service.ml:

module Email = Sihl_email.Smtp

If you want to use the same backend multiple times with different configs, you can use the Make functors. The functor argument has to have a fetch function that takes a unit and returns the configuration for the backend wrapped in Lwt.t. This allows reading the config from IO.

module MarketingSmtpConfig = struct
  let fetch () = Lwt.return {sender="marketing@mail.io"; username=...}
end

module CustomerServiceSmtpConfig = struct
  let fetch () = Lwt.return {sender="help@mail.io"; username=...}
  ...
end

module MarketingMail = Sihl_email.MakeSmtp (MarketingSmtpConfig)
module CustomerServiceMail = Sihl_email.MakeSmtp (CustomerServiceSmtpConfig)

Registration

Then, register the service in run/run.ml:

let services = [ Service.Email.register () ]

Configuration

Run make sihl config to get a list of required configurations.

You can use EMAIL_BYPASS_INTERCEPT to actually use a configured SMTP server in a development setting (without having to set SIHl_ENV to production).

Usage

The API is documented in Sihl.Contract.Email.Sig.

Template service

The template service can be used to create and edit email templates. Email templates are rendered with parameters to emails, that can be sent with the email service. Currently MariaDb (Sihl_cache.MariaDb) and PostgreSql (Sihl_cache.PostgreSql) are supported.

Installation

Backend

First, choose a backend in service/service.ml:

module Email_template = Sihl_email.Temlate.PostgreSql

Registration

Then, register the service in run/run.ml:

let services = [ Service.Email_template.register () ]

Migrations

Run make sihl migrate to run pending migrations.

Usage

The API is documented in Sihl.Contract.Email_template.Sig.