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I'm at the early stages of civicrm rollout for a non-profit I volunteer for. One of the lingering questions I've got is about tapping into the CiviMail infrastructure from external modules. The reason being, we're using epublish to generate out newsletters, and eventually we'll want to use the groups in CiviCRM as the distribution list for this (instead of the existing mailman list).

I'm happy to sling code here, but I'm unsure where to hook in. The API interfaces around CiviMail seem to be mostly about events after mails were sent, not actually the sending of mail through the infrastructure itself. In an ideal world I'd want an interface where I could hand over the core content, subject, and a group or smart group to send to, and the template and bounce tracking would come from CiviMail.

Any directions, hints, or suggestions welcomed. The resultant code will all go out as a drupal module on drupal.org for anyone else to use.