Documentation:Emailing from an app using MDrivenServer

Be sure to have set up the portal settings or MDriven Server settings

Serverside viewmodel

Create a serverside viewmodel like this;

When you have an action in your viewmodel named “email” then MDrivenServer will try to find the following properties in your viewmodel:

• to : will be used as to email address. You can also send in multiple emails in a comma separated string to send to multiple. Use this syntax PopularName<email> to get a common name to show instead of the email. For example "PopularName1<email@email.x>,PopularName2<email2@email.x>"
• Bcc : (Added 2020-11-27) Same rules as "to" but blind carbon copy
• CC : (Added 2020-11-27) Same rules as "to" but carbon copy

• from: the sender email (You may send the a presentation as well as PopularName2<email2@email.x>)

• frompresentation: the name to use as sender This is no longer in effect as all is handled in the "from" column

• body: the message

• subject: the subject line

• Emailxxx: Any action starting with email will trigger the send.

Adding attachments to server side emails

Add a nesting column name "attachments"

Let the target nesting have the following columns: file:blob, name:string and mediatype:string

None of the above is case sensitive. See example below

Extensions 2020-05-28 - Inline disposition and contentid

If you have an html email with pictures - you can either add the image content as base64 data:

<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,base64-data-string-here" />

Or - if you do want base64 images you can also add them as attachments and refer to them with a contentid:

<img src="cid:THECCONTENTID" />

We now check the Attachments-nesting for a column named "contentid" and add this to the attachment - if it is not found we still add the attachment but without an id.

When adding the content id we also set the attachments-Disposition-Type to inline. This will have the effect to not listing the attachment in the email - only showing the attachment where it is referenced from the cid