Sending mail in liferay

 In most of your project you may come across sending an mail to the user when ever updated.

In liferay its pretty easy to do with that

       InternetAddress fromAddress = new InternetAddress(user.getEmailAddress()) // from address
        InternetAddress toAddress = new InternetAddress(user.getEmailAddress())  // to address

            String body = ContentUtil.get("/templates/sample.tmpl", true);  // email body , here we are getting email structure creating the content folder in the src and create the file with the extension as tmpl.

Here i have created a folder called content and also created file as sample.tmpl

            String subject = "subject" // email subject
           
            body = StringUtil.replace(body, new String []{"[$NAME$]","[$DESC$]"}, new String []{"Name","Description"}); // replacing the body with our content.

            MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage();
            mailMessage.setTo(toAddress);
            mailMessage.setFrom(fromAddress);
            mailMessage.setSubject(subject);
            mailMessage.setBody(body);
            mailMessage.setHTMLFormat(true);
           
            MailServiceUtil.sendEmail(mailMessage); // Sending message

Template file is as follows (sample.tmpl)

Hi [$NAME$],<br/><br/>

  [$DESC$]. <br/><br/>
 
Best Regards,<br/>
VenkaReddy<br/>