hook_civicrm_alterMailer¶

Summary¶

This hook is called when CiviCRM prepares an email driver class to handle outbound message delivery.

Availability¶

Introduced in CiviCRM v4.4.

Definition¶

hook_civicrm_alterMailer(&$mailer, $driver, $params)

Parameters¶

object$mailer -The default mailer produced by normal configuration; a PEAR "Mail" class (like those returned by Mail::factory)
string $driver - The type of the default $mailer (eg "smtp", "sendmail", "mock", "CRM_Mailing_BAO_Spool")
array $params - The default config options used to construct $mailer

Example¶

/**
 * Implementation of hook_civicrm_alterMailer
 *
 * Replace the normal mailer with our custom mailer
 */
function example_civicrm_alterMailer(&$mailer, $driver, $params) {
  $mailer = new ExampleMailDriver();
}

/**
 * Outbound mailer which writes messages to a log file
 *
 * For better examples, see PEAR Mail.
 *
 * @see Mail_null
 * @see Mail_mock
 * @see Mail_sendmail
 * @see Mail_smtp
 */
class ExampleMailDriver {
  /**
   * Send an email
   */
  function send($recipients, $headers, $body) {
    // Write mail out to a log file instead of delivering it
    $data = array(
      'recipients' => $recipients,
      'headers' => $headers,
      'body' => $body,
    );
    file_put_contents('/tmp/outbound-mail.log', json_encode($data), FILE_APPEND);
  }
}