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Mailer

Email message, Mime multipart types, and sync transports live in serenade-mailer (#153, #152, #228, #253).

Types

Section titled “Types”
Type Role
Address Mailbox (email@host or Name <email@host>), parse / parse_list, Display
Body Plain text and/or HTML
Attachment Downloadable or inline (CID) part: filename, MIME type, bytes, disposition
ContentDisposition Attachment vs Inline
Email Builder for headers, subject, body, attach / embed
MimeTree / MimePart Multipart layout: alternative / related / mixed
MailerError Build / send failures

Email::mime_tree() returns the nested structure SMTP encode uses:

  • text + HTML → multipart/alternative
  • HTML + CID embeds → multipart/related (HTML alternative sibling when text is present)
  • downloadable files → outer multipart/mixed

Transports

Section titled “Transports”
Transport Role
NullTransport Discards messages (default DI mailer)
FileTransport Writes a readable dump under a directory
SmtpTransport SMTP via lettre (Cargo feature smtp, on by default)
EspHttpTransport HTTP ESP mail API (Cargo feature esp, off by default)

All implement Transport with sync send.

DI

Section titled “DI”

FrameworkExtension adds [RegisterDefaultMailerPass], which registers service id mailer (DEFAULT_MAILER_SERVICE) tagged mailer.transport with a NullTransport when missing. Resolve MailerService and call send.

Apps replace the default by registering their own mailer service (file or SMTP) before compile.

Example

Section titled “Example”
use serenade_mailer::{Attachment, Email, FileTransport, NullTransport, Transport};


let email = Email::new()
    .from("Shop <shop@example.test>")?
    .to("buyer@example.test")?
    .subject("Order confirmation")
    .text("Thanks for your order.")
    .html("<p>Thanks <img src=\"cid:logo@shop\" /></p>")
    .embed(Attachment::inline_from_bytes(
        "logo.png",
        "image/png",
        "logo@shop",
        b"\x89PNG".as_slice(),
    ))
    .attach(Attachment::from_bytes(
        "receipt.txt",
        "text/plain",
        b"order-1".as_slice(),
    ));


assert_eq!(email.mime_tree().multipart_subtype(), Some("mixed"));


NullTransport::new().send(&email)?;
FileTransport::new("var/mail").send(&email)?;

SMTP (feature smtp):

use serenade_mailer::{SmtpTransport, Transport};


let smtp = SmtpTransport::relay("smtp.example.test")
    .credentials("user", "pass")
    .build()?;
smtp.send(&email)?;

ESP HTTP (feature esp)

Section titled “ESP HTTP (feature esp)”

Enable with serenade-mailer feature esp. Serenade shapes a SendGrid-class JSON mail API and a sync [EspHttpPoster] trait; apps own the HTTP client (no mandatory vendor SDK).

Piece Role
EspApiConfig Endpoint URL + API key (Authorization: Bearer <api_key>)
EspHttpPoster / MockEspHttpPoster Sync POST trait + test double
EspHttpTransport Builds JSON from Email, POSTs, requires 2xx
build_esp_payload Shared JSON encoder (text/HTML; attachments omitted) 
use serenade_mailer::{
    EspApiConfig, EspHttpTransport, MockEspHttpPoster, Transport,
};


let poster = MockEspHttpPoster::accepted();
let transport = EspHttpTransport::new(
    EspApiConfig::new("https://api.example/v3/mail/send", "api-key"),
    poster,
);
transport.send(&email)?;
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