So now that we have our message composed, our mailer created using our transport or

send mail, now we need to take that mailer and send out our message.

So how do we do that, but with another method?

So we'll do $mailer, not our message, and then the method

that we're going to use is called send, which makes a lot of sense to me.

Open and close your parentheses and close it out.

And what do you think we might want to send?

But our message.

Now we can just let it go at this, that's fine.

But what if there's a problem?

Well, the mailer will return to us a value.

So we're going to need to capture that into an actual variable.

So we'll tell it result.

We'll set that equal to the output of the mailer send.

Now the thing that we're going to get here is a response of either zero,

or an integer.

The zero says that no messages were sent.

An integer tells us how many email addresses it went out to.

This helps us find which email addresses are going to be messed up if we have

a large amount of emails.

But for now, we just wanna make sure that at least one was sent,

because that is all that would be sent from this particular application.

We'll do that with a simple conditional.

We're gonna check our result.

And if that result is greater than zero, meaning something as been sent,

then we're good to go.

Now if it hasn't, we're gonna wanna do something.

Go back up here, clean this up a little.

Okay.

So, we're gonna eventually wanna send a message.

To the user that the message failed to send.

We're probably also gonna wanna log this.

That way if we have a Chron job that sends us our logs on a regular basis,

we'll know if we're having some issues constantly.

Now for each one of these, we're always gonna wanna redirect.

Well if there's an error,

I would assume we're gonna wanna redirect back to the contact page.

We've already done that before.

We did it with the $app, okay, and

we set that using the object operator to redirect.

Okay, so once we do our redirect, we're gonna redirect it to our contact page.

Close that out with a semicolon and save it.

Now if it's good, we're going to want to send a message as well.

Maybe just say thank you.

Then we're also going to want to redirect again.

So $app redirect, and

we'll redirect them back to our home page.

And then the message would appear on the home page that says, hey,

thanks, appreciate it.

Okay, so that gives us a good if, else statement to work with.

That's very basic.

There's lots of room for improvement here, but

I just want to see, is this going to send out?

Is this going to work?

All right, so let's see if we end up back at the home page, or

if we end back at the contact page when we run this.

If there's any errors, no problem, we'll just work our way through them.

Let's start by rendering and viewing with the eyeball.

Go to our contact page.

All right. Full name, Hampton Paulk.

Email address, hampton@teamtreehouse.com.

And my message, Hello Waldo.

All right I'm gonna hit Submit.

[NOISE] address and mailbox given does not comply, okay, does not comply.

Well I've done this before, so

I'm gonna show you how I've figured out what the issue is.

So if I hit this website, which is actually the Swift mailers documentation

about messages, I can put this link in the notes.

If you scroll down here, and you're looking at how we set this up, see,

we've got our new instance, our subject, from, to, look at the from.

Notice it's an array with the email address, and then the name.

If you go back over and look at mine, and

you go up to the setFrom, let's close this console out.

Our setFrom here on line 48,

that's gonna show us that we're doing our name first and

then the email, but the standard is to do the email and then the name.

All right, so there's our problem.

So what I'm gonna do is just swap these two.

I'm gonna cut this one out of here, do my email first,

same array pointer here, and then paste in my clean name.

All right, that's one step.

Now, do I need to do anything here?

I'm not sure yet.

Let's just give it another try.

So I'm gonna go back, hit refresh, and then type it in again.

All right, message to Waldo, and then hit Submit.

It directed us back to our homepage, so that should tell me that we have mail.

Great!

How do we check it?

All right, in work spaces, to be a little creative,

we're gonna need to do it through our terminal.

Now this is going back real old school folks, so prepare yourselves.

Show console, and then at the very top, I'm gonna type in mail.

And now it pulls up Heirloom Mail Version 12.5.

That's right, that's what it is.

But if you look, there's a message from a guy named Hampton, that was sent today.

And the message title, or the actual subject is Email from our Website.

So I'm gonna hit 1 and then Enter.

And now you can actually see the email itself, Hello Waldo.

Now in any normal situation, this would've just sent the email to you where ever,

whatever your email is, but here locally, that's how I can check it.

And you can too, just by typing in mail from the console.

I'm gonna actually type delete, and that's gonna delete that message, and

then I'm going to quit out of here by typing quit.

Now if I clear the screen and type in mail again,

you'll see that there is now no mail for treehouse.

But, if I was to send that message again, I'll get another message.

Let's walk through it one last time.

Full name, Hampton Paulk.

Email address, hampton@teamtreehouse.com.

And my message, Hello again good sir.

Submit.

Back to our homepage, no message yet.

But If we go back to our console and type in mail,

we'll now have one from Hampton Paulk using the full name, same subject,

because that's statically set, email from our website.

We type 1 to get to the the message.

There's the message, Hello again, good sir.

I'm gonna type delete.

Hit Enter and then quit, and hit Enter.

And that is how you check your mail from your terminal.