Creating Custom Email / Message Templates

I want to create my own email templates to support my custom features. Can I do this? If not, can someone suggest a workaround.

Thanks!

bump.  I'm wondering the same thing!  This would be incredibly helpful.

If you've got the source code, then it's easy to add another function that mimics e.g. MessageManager.SendCustomerPasswordRecoveryMessage, but uses a different template name. And then use the Administration UI to author the email template for that name.

In fact, MessageManager looks ripe for a Refactoring. A lot of the routines follow exactly the same structure and perhaps a function as per below would be worth including in the next build?

        /// <summary>
        /// Sends generic message to a customer, using a specific template
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="customer">Customer instance</param>
        /// <param name="languageId">Message language identifier</param>
        /// <param name="templateName">Name of template to use</param>
        /// <returns>Queued email identifier</returns>
        public static int SendMessageFromTemplate(Customer customer, int languageId, string templateName)
        {
            if (customer == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("customer");
            if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(templateName))
                throw new ArgumentNullException("templateName");

            var localizedMessageTemplate = MessageManager.GetLocalizedMessageTemplate(templateName, languageId);
            if (localizedMessageTemplate == null || !localizedMessageTemplate.IsActive)
                return 0;

            var emailAccount = localizedMessageTemplate.EmailAccount;

            string subject = ReplaceMessageTemplateTokens(customer, localizedMessageTemplate.Subject);
            string body = ReplaceMessageTemplateTokens(customer, localizedMessageTemplate.Body);
            string bcc = localizedMessageTemplate.BccEmailAddresses;
            var from = new MailAddress(emailAccount.Email, emailAccount.DisplayName);
            var to = new MailAddress(customer.Email, customer.FullName);
            var queuedEmail = InsertQueuedEmail(5, from, to, string.Empty, bcc, subject, body,
                DateTime.UtcNow, 0, null, emailAccount.EmailAccountId);
            return queuedEmail.QueuedEmailId;
        }

Try http://www.stringtemplate.org/

I have been using String Template and it has many features. You can pass collections into and it formats templates accordingly.