automatically create plain-text version from html template

depends on Node html-to-text, can be overrided by changing settings.

Author: Satya van Heummen

Diff for: emails.coffee

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 
 TAG = 'mailer'
 
+# used to make plain-text version from html version
+htmlToText = Npm.require 'html-to-text'
+
 # ## Setup
 
 # Main exported symbol with some initial settings:
@@ -27,6 +30,7 @@ Mailer =
     disabled: false
     addRoutes: process.env.NODE_ENV is 'development'
     language: 'html'
+    plainText: true
 
     juiceOpts:
       preserveMediaQueries: true
@@ -226,6 +230,14 @@ MailerClass = (options) ->
     # Render HTML with optional data context.
     try
       opts.html = render options.template, options.data
+
+      # create plain-text version from html
+      if settings.plainText
+        try
+          opts.text = htmlToText.fromString opts.html
+        catch ex
+          Utils.Logger.error "Could not make plain-text version from html: " + ex.message
+
     catch ex
       Utils.Logger.error 'Could not render email before sending: ' + ex.message, TAG
       return false

Diff for: package.js

@@ -3,10 +3,14 @@ var where = 'server';
 Package.describe({
   name: 'lookback:emails',
   summary: 'Send HTML emails with server side Blaze templates. Preview and debug in the browser.',
-  version: '0.5.1',
+  version: '0.6.0',
   git: 'https://github.com/lookback/meteor-emails.git'
 });
 
+Npm.depends({
+  "html-to-text": "1.3.0"
+});
+
 Package.onUse(function(api) {
 
   api.versionsFrom('1.0.4');