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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\Mail;
+
+/**
+ * Defines an interface for pluggable mail back-ends.
+ *
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Annotation\Mail
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Mail\MailManager
+ * @see plugin_api
+ */
+interface MailInterface {
+
+ /**
+ * Formats a message prior to sending.
+ *
+ * Allows to preprocess, format, and postprocess a mail message before it is
+ * passed to the sending system. By default, all messages may contain HTML and
+ * are converted to plain-text by the Drupal\Core\Mail\Plugin\Mail\PhpMail
+ * implementation. For example, an alternative implementation could override
+ * the default implementation and also sanitize the HTML for usage in a MIME-
+ * encoded email, but still invoking the Drupal\Core\Mail\Plugin\Mail\PhpMail
+ * implementation to generate an alternate plain-text version for sending.
+ *
+ * @param array $message
+ * A message array, as described in hook_mail_alter().
+ *
+ * @return array
+ * The formatted $message.
+ *
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Mail\MailManagerInterface
+ */
+ public function format(array $message);
+
+ /**
+ * Sends a message composed by \Drupal\Core\Mail\MailManagerInterface->mail().
+ *
+ * @param array $message
+ * Message array with at least the following elements:
+ * - id: A unique identifier of the email type. Examples: 'contact_user_copy',
+ * 'user_password_reset'.
+ * - to: The mail address or addresses where the message will be sent to.
+ * The formatting of this string will be validated with the
+ * @link http://php.net/manual/filter.filters.validate.php PHP email validation filter. @endlink
+ * Some examples:
+ * - user@example.com
+ * - user@example.com, anotheruser@example.com
+ * - User <user@example.com>
+ * - User <user@example.com>, Another User <anotheruser@example.com>
+ * - subject: Subject of the email to be sent. This must not contain any
+ * newline characters, or the mail may not be sent properly. The subject
+ * is converted to plain text by the mail plugin manager.
+ * - body: Message to be sent. Accepts both CRLF and LF line-endings.
+ * Email bodies must be wrapped. For smart plain text wrapping you can use
+ * \Drupal\Core\Mail\MailFormatHelper::wrapMail() .
+ * - headers: Associative array containing all additional mail headers not
+ * defined by one of the other parameters. PHP's mail() looks for Cc and
+ * Bcc headers and sends the mail to addresses in these headers too.
+ *
+ * @return bool
+ * TRUE if the mail was successfully accepted for delivery, otherwise FALSE.
+ */
+ public function mail(array $message);
+
+}