Talking Drupal #437 - Drupal Mail & Easy Email

Today we are talking about sending email with Drupal, The Easy
Email Module, and Drupal Mail Best Practices with guest Wayne
Eaker. We’ll also cover Content Access by Path as our module of
the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/437
Topics

Current state of email

What happened to swiftmailer

Do you still need the mailsystem module

Why Symfony Mailer

New dependency in core

Difference between Symfony Mailer module and the Symfony
Mailer Lite module

How does the Easy email module make it easier

What are the features of Easy Email

Why not use PHP mail

JMAP

Do you have a roadmap

How do we communicate the different module options

Are you looking for help

Resources

Easy Email Module

Symfony Mailer Lite Module

Symfony Mailer Module

Mail System Module

hook_mail replacement issue

Swiftmailer / Symfony mailer issue

JMAP

FastMail

Free Easy Email Webinar

Guests

Wayne Eaker - drupaltutor.com zengenuity
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Ivan Stegic - ten7.com ivanstegic
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to grant users access to edit
content based on the path alias of the content? There’s a
module for that.



Module name/project name:

Content Access by Path



Brief history

How old: created in the past month by Mark Conroy of
Annertech, who is also a core subsystem maintainer for the
Umami profile

Versions available: a stable 1.0.0, created in the past
week, that works with Drupal 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Doesn’t have a user guide yet, but the module’s README
does include some FAQs, and the project page includes a link
to a YouTube video that demonstrates how to install and use
the module

Number of open issues: 2, one of which is a bug



Usage stats:

2 sites



Module features and usage

When installed, the module adds a new taxonomy vocabulary
to your site. You can add terms to this vocabulary to define
sections by path

Users on the site will have a new field, where you can
reference one or more of the section terms, granting the user
access to edit any content with a path that matches the
section

The module also includes a submodule called Content
Access by Path Admin Content. When installed, users who go to
the admin/content listing will only see content listed that
they can edit, based on either the sections they’ve been
assigned, or their ownership of the content.

Granting edit permissions to a “section” of the website
is a common ask for site owners, so I’m excited that this
module makes it easy to set that up. There are solutions in
the contrib ecosystem based on taxonomy for access control,
and back in episode #414 we talked about Access Policy as a
very flexible way to grant edit permissions, but in my mind
those all require more set-up, and may require an extra step
during content creation to make sure the right access is
available. Content Access by Path, along with something like
the near-ubiquitous Pathauto, can make it pretty painless to
set up and use section-specific edit permissions