Jacob Singh

I was upgrading The Watcher module to Drupal 7 today and found myself having to test a lot of email sending. Looking around in vain for a fake email system to log emails to the disk instead of sending them out into the interwebs to risk getting called the dreaded meat product, I decided to write one using the new pluggable mail system interface in Drupal 7.

Previous versions of this have existed in the past, but I couldn’t find anything in devel currently. Here’s how it works. If you want to save your mails locally to files:

Step 1
Install Devel
Step 2
Apply this patch (until it gets committed) – Review here: http://drupal.org/node/625062.

cd sites/all/modules/devel
curl http://drupal.org/files/issues/develmail-625062-1.patch | patch -p0

Step 3
In your settings.php file:

$conf['mail_system'] = array('default-system', 'DevelMailLog');

That’s it!

Unless you set anything else mails are saved to files/mails/$to-$subject-$datetime.mail.txt

Example

Bonus
You can change the directory with
variable_set(’devel_debug_mail_directory’, file_directory_path() . ‘/mails’);

Or the file format
variable_set(’devel_debug_mail_file_format’, ‘%to-%subject-%datetime.mail.txt’);

Till next time spammers…

Sorry, long time no blog.

It’s been a crazy three months working on the Plugin Manager in Core project.

For those not acquainted, the plan is to make a GUI based installer / updater for Drupal modules and themes.

We were almost done, and even had it all accessible

Then, some concerns were raised in the community about security and reliability. If you would like the US Library of Congress ref number for this discussion and the issues about Plugin Manager in D7, please contact me directly, I’ll notify you when they have finished building a computer fast enough to import them into their collection.

At any rate, here is the gist:

I, Adrian Rossouw, and probably some others are working to get something in by September 1st.

I’ve developed a specification, a backlog, and worked with Dries to finalize it’s acceptance.
Here is the something we are building:
Plugin manager for D7 code freeze spec.

I’ve also started out on a few of the issues, namely adding chmod support to FileTransfers, and moving the security sensitive operations to a separate file.

But there is a lot of other work to do, and we need all the help we can get. So if you’re interested in volunteering, comment here, or the main specification issue, email me, call me, show up at my house, whatever.

Also, come to my session at DrupalCon. I’ll also be trying to organize a BoF to talk about future plans.

Take care!
Jacob