# Sending email from a plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-from-a-plugin/50064
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [September 13, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-from-a-plugin/50064 "2016-09-13T07:58:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-from-a-plugin/50064/1 "2016-09-13T07:58:23Z")
I’d like to send out a notification email whenever a given topic with a certain category is closed. So far I I have the following event handler defined:
```ruby
DiscourseEvent.on(:topic_status_updated) do |topic_id, status, enabled|
# Send email notification when status == 'closed'
end
```
What is the proper way to do this? Do I need to define my own `ApplicationMailer` in my plugin `apps/mailer` sub-directory or can I just make a call through Discourse?
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### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-from-a-plugin/50064/2 "2016-09-13T12:27:47Z")
Tried the following inside of `DiscourseEvent` block:
```plaintext
::DiscourseMyPlugin::MyPluginMailer.status_changed(topic, status).deliver
```
but get a `method_missing` error.
If I try calling it from outside of `DiscourseEvent` block, e.g. in a controller like this:
```plaintext
DiscourseMyPlugin::MyPluginMailer.status_changed(topic, status).deliver
```
It works.
Seems to be something to do with scopes and visibility, what might I be doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@kgish](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kgish)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-from-a-plugin/50064/3 "2016-09-13T12:31:05Z")
Yes, I load the mailer at the top of the file like this:
```plaintext
load File.expand_path('../mailers/myplugin_mailer.rb', __FILE__ )
```