How To Send Email In Orchard CMS

Introduction

In this article, you will learn how to send an email in Orchard CMS using its out of the box services

Steps to send email in Orchard CMS

• Create Email Wrapper template
• Create Email Template
• Inject required Orchard services in the Controller or Custom Service
• Specify email template to use and pass the data
• Send email using MessageService

To demonstrate the scenario, let us take the example of sending a challenge email to verify the user's email address. In the Orchard.Users module, you will find all this code to send an email using Orchard services.

Steps 1 - Create Email Wrapper template

It applies default body alteration for SMTP Channel which creates the body of the HTML template. Create a new file “Template.User.Wrapper.cshtml” under Views folder.

Steps 2 - Create Email Template

Now, create the content of the email. It applies default body alteration for SMTP Channel which creates the body of HTML template. Create a new file “Template.User.Validated.cshtml” under Views folder. It is the same Razor View page where we can pass the data and place on the place holders. For example, Model.ContactEmail is the address of the contact person of the website.

Steps 3 - Inject required Orchard services in the Controller or Custom Service

To render the email template, we need to use a few Orchard services. In Orchard CMS, every View Object is a shape so we need to create a shape using our created template views. We need to inject IShapeService and IShapeFactory to create the shape for the email content.