Magento capture all emails

Question

I'd like to capture all email events in Magento before they're sent and prevent magento from sending them. I know I can disable all emails under system > mail sending settings, but this is not enough. I want to send data from that email to another system. Something like this:

• Magento wants to send email
• Some method captures the email
• Same method prevents magento from sending the email
• Same method sends data through api to another system

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

I dont know about the enterprise edition but I am pretty sure that there is no event in ce

You can achieve this functionality by rewriting this classes

Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template and Mage_Core_Model_Email

In both class you find send method you need to rewrite the send method. as below

public function send($email, $name = null, array $variables = array())
{ 
   Mage::dispatchEvent('email_template_send_before', array('email' => $this, 'email_to' => $email));
   $return = parent::send($email, $name, $variables);
   Mage::dispatchEvent('email_template_send_after', array('email' => $this, 'email_to' => $email));
   return $return;
}

after rewrite this way now you have two events email_template_send_before and email_template_send_after