Hi everybody,

    Has anyone managed to configure Keycloak 2.0.0.Final to use a transactional email API instead of configuring an SMTP server? I would prefer to have Keycloak send emails using a rest API like Sendgrid, Mandrill, Mailgun or Amazon SES (the cloud-native way) instead of running an SMTP server.

   I'd also appreciate if this is possible through the SPI providers.

   * Should I implement both EmailSenderProvider and EmailTemplateProvider SPIs ?
   * I cannot get my custom EmailSenderProvider SPI implementation to work, as the FreemarkerEmailTemplateProvider implementation fails to obtain the implementation of the EmailSenderProvider. Stack trace is below

13:17:53,991 ERROR [org.keycloak.forms.login.freemarker.FreeMarkerLoginFormsProvider] (default task-39) Failed to send verification email: org.keycloak.email.EmailException: Failed to template email
at org.keycloak.email.freemarker.FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.send(FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.java:179)
at org.keycloak.email.freemarker.FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.send(FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.java:150)
at org.keycloak.email.freemarker.FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.sendVerifyEmail(FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.java:146)
at org.keycloak.forms.login.freemarker.FreeMarkerLoginFormsProvider.createResponse(FreeMarkerLoginFormsProvider.java:156)
at org.keycloak.authentication.requiredactions.VerifyEmail.requiredActionChallenge(VerifyEmail.java:73)
at org.keycloak.services.managers.AuthenticationManager.executionActions(AuthenticationManager.java:559)
at org.keycloak.services.managers.AuthenticationManager.actionRequired(AuthenticationManager.java:490)
at org.keycloak.services.managers.AuthenticationManager.nextActionAfterAuthentication(AuthenticationManager.java:412)
at org.keycloak.services.resources.LoginActionsService$Checks.verifyRequiredAction(LoginActionsService.java:299)
at org.keycloak.services.resources.LoginActionsService.processRequireAction(LoginActionsService.java:853)
at org.keycloak.services.resources.LoginActionsService.requiredActionGET(LoginActionsService.java:846)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.MethodInjectorImpl.invoke(MethodInjectorImpl.java:139)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.invokeOnTarget(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:295)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:249)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invokeOnTargetObject(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:138)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.ResourceLocatorInvoker.invoke(ResourceLocatorInvoker.java:101)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.invoke(SynchronousDispatcher.java:395)
at org.jboss.resteasy.core.SynchronousDispatcher.invoke(SynchronousDispatcher.java:202)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.ServletContainerDispatcher.service(ServletContainerDispatcher.java:221)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.service(HttpServletDispatcher.java:56)
at org.jboss.resteasy.plugins.server.servlet.HttpServletDispatcher.service(HttpServletDispatcher.java:51)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletHandler.handleRequest(ServletHandler.java:85)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.FilterHandler$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterHandler.java:129)
at org.keycloak.services.filters.KeycloakSessionServletFilter.doFilter(KeycloakSessionServletFilter.java:90)
at io.undertow.servlet.core.ManagedFilter.doFilter(ManagedFilter.java:60)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.FilterHandler$FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterHandler.java:131)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.FilterHandler.handleRequest(FilterHandler.java:84)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.security.ServletSecurityRoleHandler.handleRequest(ServletSecurityRoleHandler.java:62)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletDispatchingHandler.handleRequest(ServletDispatchingHandler.java:36)
at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.security.SecurityContextAssociationHandler.handleRequest(SecurityContextAssociationHandler.java:78)
at io.undertow.server.handlers.PredicateHandler.handleRequest(PredicateHandler.java:43)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.security.SSLInformationAssociationHandler.handleRequest(SSLInformationAssociationHandler.java:131)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.security.ServletAuthenticationCallHandler.handleRequest(ServletAuthenticationCallHandler.java:57)
at io.undertow.server.handlers.PredicateHandler.handleRequest(PredicateHandler.java:43)
at io.undertow.security.handlers.AbstractConfidentialityHandler.handleRequest(AbstractConfidentialityHandler.java:46)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.security.ServletConfidentialityConstraintHandler.handleRequest(ServletConfidentialityConstraintHandler.java:64)
at io.undertow.security.handlers.AuthenticationMechanismsHandler.handleRequest(AuthenticationMechanismsHandler.java:60)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.security.CachedAuthenticatedSessionHandler.handleRequest(CachedAuthenticatedSessionHandler.java:77)
at io.undertow.security.handlers.NotificationReceiverHandler.handleRequest(NotificationReceiverHandler.java:50)
at io.undertow.security.handlers.AbstractSecurityContextAssociationHandler.handleRequest(AbstractSecurityContextAssociationHandler.java:43)
at io.undertow.server.handlers.PredicateHandler.handleRequest(PredicateHandler.java:43)
at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.security.jacc.JACCContextIdHandler.handleRequest(JACCContextIdHandler.java:61)
at io.undertow.server.handlers.PredicateHandler.handleRequest(PredicateHandler.java:43)
at io.undertow.server.handlers.PredicateHandler.handleRequest(PredicateHandler.java:43)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletInitialHandler.handleFirstRequest(ServletInitialHandler.java:284)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletInitialHandler.dispatchRequest(ServletInitialHandler.java:263)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletInitialHandler.access$000(ServletInitialHandler.java:81)
at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletInitialHandler$1.handleRequest(ServletInitialHandler.java:174)
at io.undertow.server.Connectors.executeRootHandler(Connectors.java:202)
at io.undertow.server.HttpServerExchange$1.run(HttpServerExchange.java:793)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.keycloak.email.freemarker.FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.send(FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.java:185)
at org.keycloak.email.freemarker.FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.send(FreeMarkerEmailTemplateProvider.java:177)
... 57 more



Thanks,
Vineet