Articles tagged with "email"

Let's say you've built a custom form for your Drupal 8 site. It contains various elements for input (name, email address, a message, that kind of thing), and you want to send the submitted values in an email to someone (perhaps a site admin). That's a pretty common thing to need to do.

This could be done with Drupal's core contact forms, webforms, or similar -- but there are cases when a bespoke form is needed, for example, to allow some special business logic to be applied to its input or the form presentation. The drawback of a custom form...

There are a number of scenarios where you might want to log email being sent by Drupal; perhaps locally during development or for urgent debugging on a live site. There are a number of options available for Drupal email logging, and this article will cover four of the most common
ways:

• Using Devel module.
• Drupal logging modules: Maillog/Mail Developer, Mail Logger
• Drupal re-routing modules: Reroute Email, Advanced Mail Reroute
• SMTP server redirection

We'll look at the main pro's, con's and technical overhead involved in
each. I won't go into too much technical detail about setting things up, but...