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Summary of Changes

Deprecates the static functions in the MailTemplate class as they are not used in core at all. Additionally it injects a database object to prevent depreacted Factory::getDbo() calls.

Testing Instructions 1

• Log in on the back end
• Got to the global configuration server tab
• Send a test mail

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

Mail is sent.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

Mail is sent.

Testing Instructions 2

• Add the code \Joomla\CMS\Mail\MailTemplate::createTemplate('com_mails.prtest','test subject','test body',[]); to the file /administrator/components/com_mails/src/View/Templates/HtmlView.php on line 97.
• Open the back end Mail Templates list on /administrator/index.php?option=com_mails&view=templates
• Search for test
• Check the mail templates list that it has one entry
• Change the line 97 to \Joomla\CMS\Mail\MailTemplate::createTemplate('com_mails.prtest', 'test subject edited', 'test body edited', []);-
• Reload the mail templates list
• Click on the prtest entry in the list
• Check the form that it displays as subject "test subject edited" and as body "test body edited"
• Change the line 97 to \Joomla\CMS\Mail\MailTemplate::deleteTemplate('com_mails.prtest');
• Hit the close button in the form
• No Mail template is shown in the list

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

All the checks above are successful.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

All the checks above are successful.

Link to documentations

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• Documentation link for guide.joomla.org:

• No documentation changes for guide.joomla.org needed

• Pull Request link for manual.joomla.org: #47717

• No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed