Sending emails with a velocity template

First get the velocity-dep-1.4.jar file that comes with Mentawai in the lib directory and place it inside the WEB-INF/lib directory of your web application.

Now use the following code inside your action:

The default directory to look for letters is /letters and for each locale you create a directory, for example:

/letters/pt_BR/hello.html
/letters/en_US/hello.html

The correct file will be loaded depending on the user locale, and the attributes will be replaced by a velocity template. You hello.html file might look like this:

Your HTML file will be treated as a velocity template, so you can use any velocity feature you want inside it.