Send Transactional Email Programmatically in Magento 1

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This is my code:

 $emailTemplate  = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadDefault('newsletter_subscription_confirm_email_template');
            $emailTemplate->setSenderEmail(Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email', $storeId));
            $emailTemplate->setSenderName(Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name', $storeId));
            try {
                $emailTemplate->send($email, $order->getData('customer_firstname')." ".$order->getData('customer_lastname'), array());
                Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess(Mage::helper('customer')->__('An email was sent with a confirmation url'));
                $this->redirectSubscribeSuccess();
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
            }

I received the the email with the content of the transactional email, except that the

{{var subscriber.getConfirmationLink()}}
is empty . Do you know why ?

Thanks.!

[UPDATE]

 $emailTemplate  = Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadDefault('newsletter_subscription_confirm_email_template');
            $emailTemplate->setSenderEmail(Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/email', Mage::app()->getStore()->getId()));
            $emailTemplate->setSenderName(Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_general/name', Mage::app()->getStore()->getId()));
            $subscriber = Mage::getModel('newsletter/subscriber')->loadByEmail($email);
            if (!$subscriber->getId()
                || $subscriber->getStatus() == Mage_Newsletter_Model_Subscriber::STATUS_UNSUBSCRIBED
                || $subscriber->getStatus() == Mage_Newsletter_Model_Subscriber::STATUS_NOT_ACTIVE) {
                $subscriber->setStatus(Mage_Newsletter_Model_Subscriber::STATUS_SUBSCRIBED);
                $subscriber->setSubscriberEmail($email);
                $subscriber->setSubscriberConfirmCode($subscriber->RandomSequence());
                $subscriber->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());
                $subscriber->setCustomerId($order->getData('customer_id'));
            }
            try {
                $emailTemplate->send($email, $order->getData('customer_firstname')." ".$order->getData('customer_lastname'), array('subscriber' => $subscriber));
                Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->addSuccess(Mage::helper('customer')->__('An email was sent with a confirmation url'));
                $this->redirectSubscribeSuccess();
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                throw new Exception($e->getMessage());
            }

Best Answer

If you look at default Magento confirmation email send function Mage_Newsletter_Model_Subscriber::sendConfirmationRequestEmail You will see that they have used $this, object of newsletter/subscriber model to pass as subscriber in it.

$email->sendTransactional(
    Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_CONFIRM_EMAIL_TEMPLATE),
    Mage::getStoreConfig(self::XML_PATH_CONFIRM_EMAIL_IDENTITY),
    $this->getEmail(),
    $this->getName(),
    array('subscriber'=>$this)
);

You need to pass object of newsletter/subscriber to your custom email send function to make {{var subscriber.getConfirmationLink()}} work. In your code you have passed blank array() You can simply use

$newsletterObject = Mage::getModel('newsletter/subscriber');
$emailTemplate->send($email, $order->getData('customer_firstname')." ".$order->getData('customer_lastname'), array('subscriber'=>$newsletterObject));

You may need to load current subscriber in $newsletterObject.

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Looking at your code there are a few items that doesn't seem right. You can update it to the following:

include_once "app/Mage.php";
umask(0);
Mage::app();

$mailTemplate        = Mage::getModel('core/email_template');
$translate           = Mage::getSingleton('core/translate');
$templateId          = 20;
$template_collection = $mailTemplate->load($templateId);
$template_data       = $template_collection->getData();

if(!empty($template_data)) {
    $mailSubject = 'Subject';   
    $from_email  = 'trvsw@example.com';
    $from_name   = 'trvsw';
    $sender      =  array(
                       'name'  => $from_name,
                       'email' => $from_email
                   );

    $vars        = array('customerName' => 'trvsw');
    $storeId     = Mage::app()->getStore()->getStoreId();

    $model = $mailTemplate->setReplyTo($sender['email'])->setTemplateSubject($mailSubject);
    $email = 'trvsw@example.com';
    $name  = 'trvsw';
    try {
        $model->sendTransactional($templateId, $sender, $email, $name, $vars, $storeId);
    if(!$mailTemplate->getSentSuccess()) {
        echo "Something went wrong...<br>";
    } else {
        echo "Message sent to ".$email."!!!<br>";
    }
    $translate->setTranslateInline(true);
    } catch(Exception $e) {
       Mage::logException($e)  ;
    }
}

Originally in your code you're assigning $templateId = $template_data['template_id']; which doesn't exist.

I tested the code and that seems to be the only item that doesn't seem right. I'd also look at changing how you're loading the template to use the name rather than the ID e.g Mage::getModel('core/email_template')->loadByCode('Tests') if Tests is the name of your template you have setup.

EDIT:

Looking at your update looks like its your SMTP server on your local environment that is unable to send the email. see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7504424/sendmail-returns-error-code-550-5-1-1-user-unknown

Magento – Transactional Email Sender

There are a few solutions that are possible here.

From your admin dashboard, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Store Email Addresses. From there, make sure your email addresses are all set properly.

There are also a few sender settings in Configuration > Sales > Sales Emails.

If all of that is set, check your php.ini for Sendmail settings. There's also /etc/hosts/ and /etc/mail/, but that may be dependent on your system.

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