Email templates

[kristian240]

Hi all,

I have a requirement and I have few ideas to tackle it but I want to find out your opinion and maybe we can implement better solution in the Payload. I use SendGrid as email provider and in order to send email I have 2 options.

One option is to generate HTML in my app and use SendGrid to send the email. This option is straight forwards since Payload expect to be the one to generate the HTML.

Second option is to generate HTML on SendGrid using SendGrid templates. To send an email this way I need to create a POST request with the template id and payload.

Feature I'm starting with is the forgot password email. To send an email using SengGrid I need to

• disable email that will be sent by default (why is there no disableEmail setting in auth.forgotPassword?)
• "send" custom email with same URL that would Payload generate

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My ideas

1. in generateEmailHTML return object instead of string and handle that in custom email adapter. Issue here are the types.
2. disable native forgot password email by returning empty strings from generateEmailHTML and generateEmailSubject and send custom email in after forget password operation hook
3. completely ditch the native forgot password flow and use local API to reimplement the same logic (this seems unnecessary)