Sending email from Clojure.
I’m working on several small projects in Clojure, and for one of them I needed to be able to send email. Quick googling revealed this. Java Mail API? Just what I wanted. However since I’m using leiningen, I needed to find a maven repository with javamail. In my search for javamail I happened across Apache commons-email, the description is as follows: “Commons Email aims to provide a API for sending email. It is built on top of the Java Mail API, which it aims to simplify.“ Simplify you say? Well that is worth a look… Long story short, if you are using leiningen. In project.clj add:
:repositories [["central-proxy" "http://repository.sonatype.org/content/repositories/central/"]]
:dependencies [[org.apache.commons/commons-email "1.2"]]
Now you can simply do the following:
This does add one extra dependency but, considering it can easily send HTML email and do attachments, I think it’s worth it.
