Your first impression might be that the implementation is
overly complicated - and yes, you are right. On the other
hand sending emails is our core business and we regularly
have to do the following things
- Signing emails and/or attachment with X.509 certificates
- Figuring out why sending en email goes wrong
Archving the emails being sent using the file system, database or commercial archiving systems
Domain Centric Approach
The configuration of the services is centered around domains whereas
a domain usually maps to the mail address of the sender. A domain
contains all relevant configuration information for the email being
created or sent.
The service provide methods which can be overriden by a derived class.
Since the author has no idea about the required configuration needed by
a derived class the CommonsEmailDomainEntry allows access to the
corresponding configuration instance.
Determining a Domain
The domain is determined using the following steps
- take the domain matching the sender's email address (e.g. email@example.com)
- take the domain matching the sender's domain address (e.g. bar.com)
- take the default domain