8.3. Adding mail support

If your application offers any sort of user sign-up capability, it won’t be long before you’ll need to look at implementing email support. Whether you need to send signup welcome emails, respond to forgotten-password messages, or support a daily digest, having email capability is now a pretty standard requirement. Grails offers the Mail plugin to make sending email simple. You can send mail from controllers or services, and even use complex GSP views to create fancy HTML emails.

Let’s install the plugin and get under way: