Gooseberry - Alternative Mailer for CiviCRM

Extension provides handling mailer objects in CiviCRM for transactional emails (not CiviMail!).

There is only page displaying current settings, on url civicrm/gooseberry/settings.

Assumptions:

• each alternative mailer has own setting mailing_backend_alternate[1-2],
  • first at mailing_backend_alternate1,
  • second at mailing_backend_alternate2,
• in session variable gooseberry is stored which mailer will be used,
• mailer is changed by hook_civicrm_alterMailer().

How it works

The extension rewrites $mailer object in hook_civicrm_alterMailParams(). Remember that CiviMail doesn’t use this hook, so it’s not possible to change setting for CiviMail by this extension. Instead of this CiviMail uses default setting mailing_backend provided by page Outbound Mail.

This works only when Outbound Mail is set to any STMP server.

This works only for $context = 'singleEmail'.

How to add alternative mailer

• set your alternative SMTP at “Outbound Mail” page
• run sql query

INSERT INTO civicrm_setting (name, value, domain_id, contact_id, is_domain, component_id, created_date, created_id)
  SELECT 'mailing_backend_alternate1', value, domain_id, contact_id, is_domain, component_id, created_date, created_id
  FROM civicrm_setting WHERE name = 'mailing_backend';

• set your default SMTP at “Outbound Mail” page

How to switch on

There are two ways for switch on:

• set up params:

  $params['gooseberry'] = 1; // during preparing params for method CRM_Utils_Mail::send()

• set up groupName in settings reGroupName* as a list of regular expressions. Use sql query to insert or update, for example:
  ```sql
  INSERT INTO civicrm_setting (name, value, domain_id, contact_id, is_domain, component_id, created_date, created_id)
  SELECT ‘reGroupName1’, ‘s”/Scheduled Reminder Sender/||/Activity Email Sender/“;’, domain_id, contact_id, is_domain, component_id, created_date, created_id
  FROM civicrm_setting WHERE name = ‘mailing_backend’;

UPDATE civicrm_setting
SET value = ‘s”/Scheduled Reminder Sender/||/Activity Email Sender/||/Report Email Sender/||/Mailing Event .*/“;’
WHERE name = ‘reGroupName1’;

UPDATE civicrm_setting
SET value = ‘s””;’
WHERE name = ‘reGroupName1’;
```

Emails from reGroupName1 uses mailing_backend_alternate1 configuration.

List of groupNames

• /Scheduled Reminder Sender/ - email via Scheduled Job job.send_reminder
• /Mailing Event .*/ - email “Confirm a pending subscription” on mailing
• /Activity Email Sender/ - email via “Send an Email” form below “Actions” button on contact page
• /Report Email Sender/ - email via tab “Email Delivery” on any report
• /SpeakCivi WeMove/ - confirmation emails in SpeakCivi extension for standard campaigns
• /SpeakCivi YouMove/ - confirmation emails in SpeakCivi extension for YouMove campaigns
• /SEPA Email Sender/ - emails in SEPA extension
• /WemoveConsent.request/ - emails with consent request sent via CommitCivi

Meaning of session variable

Thanks to value of session variable gooseberry extension decides which alternative mailer will be used.

• 0 - use default SMTP server (this depends on mailing_backend),
• 1 - use first alternative SMTP server,
• 2 - use second alternative SMTP server.