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This is a very simple email rendering package. Simple dictionary substitution occurrs.

Configuration

1. Make sure you set the SimpleEmailRenderer:BaseDirectory in your configuration like this:

{
	"SimpleEmailRenderer": {
		"BaseDirectory": "..\\SimpleEmailRenderer\\EmailTemplates"
	},
}

1. Create a folder in your project called EmailTemplates (or whatever you set the SimpleEmailRenderer:BaseDirectory to)
2. Each folder in the EmailTemplates folder will be a template. The name of the folder will be the name of the template.
3. Each template folder should contain a messagebody.html file. This is the template that will be used to render the HTML version of the email.
4. Each template folder should contain a messagebody.txt file. This is the template that will be used to render the text version of the email.
5. There should be a settings.json file in the root of the EmailTemplates folder. This file contains the default settings for all templates.
   1. Each template folder may contain a settings.json that override the settings in the root settings.json file.

Example settings.json file:

{
	"FromEmail": "[email protected]",
	"FromDisplayName": "Jon Doe",

	"EmailSubject": "Override Me!"
}

Example settings.json file in a template folder:

{
	"EmailSubject": "This is a template specific subject"
}

The EmailSubject will be "This is a template specific subject" for the template that contains the settings.json file in the template folder. Otherwise the EmailSubject would be set to Override Me!.

Multilingual Configuration

You can add multilingual email templates by using the TwoLetterISOLanguageName as part of the path to the template folder. E.g. BaseDirectory\{TemplateName}\{TwoLetterISOLanguageName}\messagebody.html

Usage

	// This really should be brought in via Dependency Injection (Singleton)
	var renderer = new SimpleEmailRenderer
	{
		BaseDirectory = ".\\EmailDirectory"
	};

	// Here are the values we're going to utilize in our email template:
	var replace = new MergeDictionary
	{ 
		{ "FirstName", "Nate" },
		{ "LastName", "Zaugg" },
		{ "Code", "12345" },
	};

	// Generate the email
	var result = await renderer.GenerateEmail("Welcome", "[email protected]", replace);

	// Send the message
	MailMessage msg = result.ToMailMessage();
	SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();
	await client.SendMailAsync(msg);

Example of a template:

This file must be named messagebody.html and must be in the folder that matches the template name.

<h2>{{FirstName}} {{LastName}},</h2>

<p>Welcome to our site!</p>

<p>Please use this link to confirm your account: <a href="{{Code}}">{{Code}}</a></p>

Thanks!
Test Email!

A plain text version would be mostly the same, but without the HTML markup, of course. It should be named messagebody.txt and must be in the folder that matches the template name.