The email component is extensible. See this example:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/dankroad/2011/01/30/integrate_amazon_simple_email_service_ses_into_existing_application
While it's purpose is different than yours it should give some ideas.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Christophe Vandeplas
<christo...@vandeplas.com> wrote:
> Hello bujanga,
>
> That's indeed what I am doing now, but it is a violation of the MVC principle.
> So I'd like to do it the clean way, but I need a little help to get started.
>
> Of course I'll publish any final code if it becomes a plugin/component ...
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:21 PM, bujanga <buja...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I do something very similar. Though I send plain text email only. I
>> create my data as fully formatted, sign/encrypt it and then send it to
>> a template that just outputs the field.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Christophe Vandeplas
>> <christo...@vandeplas.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> My webapplication needs to send out emails that are signed with a GPG
>>> signature.
>>> However as I am using the Email component this seems a little more
>>> complicated as I can't really figure out how to do it. Any help will
>>> be appreciated and compensated with Belgian beer if we ever meet.
>>>
>>> Signing data using GnuPG (and the PEAR GPG classes) is relatively
>>> easy:
>>> require_once 'Crypt/GPG.php';
>>> $gpg = new Crypt_GPG();
>>> $text = "Hello world";
>>> $gpg->addSignKey(Configure::read('GnuPG.email'),
>>> Configure::read('GnuPG.password'));
>>> $text_signed = $gpg->sign($text, Crypt_GPG::SIGN_MODE_CLEAR);
>>> debug($text_signed);
>>>
>>> The code I use to send out the email is here. The "new_event" view
>>> will be used to format my email message with the data from $event.
>>>
>>> $this->Email->from = "foo <f...@bar.com>";
>>> $this->Email->to = "bar <b...@foo.com>";
>>> $this->Email->subject = "[foo] new event";
>>> $this->Email->delivery = 'debug'; // do not really send out
>>> mails, only display it on the screen
>>> $this->Email->template = 'new_event'; // in views/elements/
>>> email/html or text
>>> $this->Email->sendAs = 'text'; // both text or html
>>> $this->set('event', $event);
>>> $this->Email->send();
>>>
>>> Now the GPG magic needs to happen on the email body/message.
>>> I've opened the EmailComponent class to find out that the ->send()
>>> function _renders() the mail using the view and finally sends it using
>>> the delivery method (mail, smtp,...).
>>>
>>> However I can't find a way to extract the rendered body, sign it, push
>>> it back and then let it be sent.
>>>
>>> I guess I will probably need to make a new component class to handle
>>> this. However I have absolutely no idea where or how to start.
>>> Considering the few lines required to do the gpg signing it shouldn't
>>> be to difficult though...
>>>
>>> Could you give me some advice to get this going?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Christophe
>>>
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