Magento - Mailgun plugin not sending email - php

Question

I'm using Magento v1.9.1, with a MailGun plugin installed.
Plugin url:
https://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/mailgun-for-email-delivery.html
Here you can see the MailGun plugin on the admin area:
Then I used the following code to send a test email (test_email.php):
<?php
// Invoke the Magento environment
require_once( 'app/Mage.php' );
Mage::app();
//Getting the Store E-Mail Sender Name.
$senderName = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name');
//Getting the Store General E-Mail.
$senderEmail = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email');
$customerEmail = "<personal_email#hidden_on_purpose>";
$text = "Hello, this is a test.";
//Sending E-Mail to Customers.
$mail = Mage::getModel('core/email')
->setToName($senderName)
->setToEmail($customerEmail)
->setBody($text)
->setSubject('Subject :')
->setFromEmail($senderEmail)
->setFromName($senderName)
->setType('html');
try{
//Confimation E-Mail Send
$mail->send();
}
catch(Exception $error)
{
Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addError($error->getMessage());
return false;
}
?>
Then the email arrives to me but it is not sent via MailGun. I know that because on the header of the received email is the server where the application lives and on the MailGun log the email is not logged.
I think the MailGun plugin is working on the backend admin area only, but it is not getting called when sending an email with Magento.
I also did a test modifying the file:
./app/code/community/FreeLunchLabs/MailGun/Model/Mailgun.php
by adding the line:
die("Send stopped on file: ./app/code/community/FreeLunchLabs/MailGun/Model/Mailgun.php");
Like:
...
public function send($message) {
die("Send stopped on file: ./app/code/community/FreeLunchLabs/MailGun/Model/Mailgun.php");
$domain = $message->getStore()->getConfig('mailgun/general/domain');
$apiKey = $message->getStore()->getConfig('mailgun/general/key');
$files = null;
if(count($message->getAttachments())) {
foreach($message->getAttachments() as $attachment) {
$files[] = $attachment;
}
}
$sendResponse = $this->mailgunRequest('messages', $domain, $apiKey, $message->getMessage(), Zend_Http_Client::POST, false, $files);
if($message->getStore()->getConfig('mailgun/events/store')) {
Mage::getModel('freelunchlabs_mailgun/email')->saveInitialSend($message, $sendResponse);
}
return $sendResponse;
}
...
But when running the file: test_email.php, the stopped message inside the die(...) on the code above doesn't appear.
Any idea on how to solve/debug this?

Answer 1

Ok, after some try/error experiments I found the answer: that MailGun extension applies only to transactional emails as stated on its description. You cannot send custom emails using MailGun straightforward like on my initial code: test_email.php. If you wanna send some custom email using MailGun you should create a template before and then use that template like in the following code where I created the template with id: 1
<?php
// Invoke the Magento environment
require_once( 'app/Mage.php' );
Mage::app();
$templateId = 1;
$receiveName = "<Your Name Here>";
$receiveEmail = "<your email here>";
$storeId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId();
$emailTemplate = Mage::getModel("core/email_template")->load($templateId);
$vars = array(
"name" => $receiveName,
"email" => $receiveEmail,
"phone" => "[phone]",
"comment" => "This is my comment: Hello World!"
);
$emailTemplate->getProcessedTemplate($vars);
/*
echo "<pre>\n";
print_r($emailTemplate);
echo "</pre>\n";
die();
//*/
$emailTemplate->setSenderName(Mage::getStoreConfig("trans_email/ident_general/name", $storeId));
$emailTemplate->setSenderEmail(Mage::getStoreConfig("trans_email/ident_general/email", $storeId));
$emailTemplate->send($receiveEmail, $receiveName, $vars);
?>
Hope this helps somebody.