AEM Forms: how to send email as HTML content type?

[wizard04wsu]

I have a form with the submit action set to "Send email" and the email template path set to a .txt file under /libs/fd/dashboard/templates/email. The email is always sent with the content type text/plain instead of text/html. For the contents of the template, I have tried multiple things: copying that of htmlEmailTemplate.txt, editing that to include only a simple test <div>, replacing everything with a full HTML page (starting with DOCTYPE), etcetera. I'm using AEM 6.5.13.

[konstantyn_diachenko]

Hi @wizard04wsu,

Adobe CQ Form Mail Servlet handles the Mail Action type of Form Container (see implementation in the com.day.cq.wcm.foundation.forms.impl.MailServlet). 

Based on its implementation, it can send 2 types of emails:

1. Multi-part email when attachments more than 1: org.apache.commons.mail.MultiPartEmail
2. Simple email: org.apache.commons.mail.SimpleEmail

To send an HTML email, you need to use org.apache.commons.mail.HtmlEmail. 

There is a good AEM Email API provided by ACS Commons: https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/e-mail/email-api/index.html. It allows you to use different email templates persisted in the repository, to send attachments etc.

I see 2 options for you:

1. create project-specific form action implementation (foundation/components/form/action). There are examples: /libs/foundation/components/form/actions/mail, /apps/core/wcm/components/form/actions/rpc. You will need to register a new servlet where you will use ACS Commons Email service, 
2. override the default Mail servlet by registering a custom MailServlet with the same declaration as com.day.cq.wcm.foundation.forms.impl.MailServlet but with a higher service ranking. In it, you can use ACS Commons Email Service.

I would suggest implementing option 1 because it won't affect OOTB code and will work separately.  

[wizard04wsu]

I will give that a try! Thank you for the guidance.

[Amita282414864fky]

Will you able to achieve this? I want to beatify the url in email template and to achieve this I overlayed in conf and added a div but then it is giving null null in email

[wizard04wsu · Accepted solution]

I ended up creating a workflow to send the email, and put the template under /apps/mysite instead of under /libs. For the form's submit action, select "Invoke an AEM workflow".

For the workflow:

- Add a variable "dataxml" of type XML, plus String variables for placeholders in the template.

- Add the Set Variables step. Map dataxml using the "Relative to payload" method to value "Data.xml", plus any other variables (I used the "Literal" method for all of the others).

- Add the Send Email step (from Forms workflows). Under Email Details, set the path to the template, then map the template placeholders to the variables.