Emails

Open up email.ex and you will see a list of functions that generate Swoosh email structs. Eg:
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def confirm_register_email(email, url) do
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  base_email()
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  |> to(email)
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  |> subject("Confirm instructions")
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  |> render_body("confirm_register_email.html", %{url: url})
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  |> premail()
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end
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If I run this function in IEX I can see the Swoosh struct:
An Swoosh.Email struct can be delivered to an email address by a Swoosh mailer (see mailer.ex). Eg:
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  Remindly.Email.confirm_register_email(user.email, url)
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  |> Remindly.Mailer.deliver()
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So email.ex creates the Swoosh structs and the functions for actually delivering emails like the previous code example are in user_notifier.ex. Think of email.ex functions like view templates, and user_notifer.ex functions like controller actions. 
So the steps to creating a new email will be:
1.Create the function to generate a Swoosh struct in email.ex
2.Ensure it looks good by navigating to "http://localhost:4000/dev/emails" and creating a new action in email_testing_controller.ex that simply renders the html_body value of the struct
3.Create a new user_notifier.ex function for use in our application
To see a more detailed write up on creating an email - see this section in the "Complete web app" guide.

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