Add Support to Send Emails from Back End Rather than using UseBasin Service

[SudharakaP]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently we are using UseBasin to send emails in our home page contact form. This has limitations and can only send 100 emails. We need to just send emails using our server. 😄

Describe the solution you'd like

Add a email sending functionality similar to what we have for password reset emails and registration email sending.

Additional context

UseBasin was used due to our need of developing a solution quickly; we would prefer to use our own email sending preferably as that will not impose any limits.

[SudharakaP]

@faithghlee : Please feel free to ask questions if you have any. We already send emails when users register and reset passwords; this will be a bit similar but the form data needs to be sent instead.

[SudharakaP]

@faithghlee : Here's some additional info.

• Our email from which you see in the home page is generated from https://github.com/OpenArchitex/OpenLearnr/blob/develop/src/main/webapp/app/home/email/email.component.html

• The logic to send emails is simple; we just poll the usebasin service in the corresponding typescript file;

OpenLearnr/src/main/webapp/app/home/email/email.component.ts

Lines 53 to 60 in 0c3b77d

	sendRequest(): Observable<any> {
	return this.http.post<any>('https://usebasin.com/f/b5ed73d03aa5', this.contactForm.value, {
	headers: new HttpHeaders({
	Accept: 'application/json'
	}),
	observe: 'response'
	});
	}

• So there's no back-end logic involved. What we have to do here is, remove this POST request to usebasin and instead replace it with a back-end POST request sending all the form information.

• Then create the back end REST endpoint for handing this information; the rest endpoints are in the package; https://github.com/OpenArchitex/OpenLearnr/tree/develop/src/main/java/com/asanka/tutor/web/rest. Create a new class such as EmailResource.java and use the MailService.sendEmail method to send the emails.

• Call this back end REST endpoint from the above sendRequest method.

• There might be intermediary steps that are needed but that's what I can think about at this point in terms of the high level overview. 😄