I don't think I'm following the 2nd half of your post, but a simple example of sending an email in Craft 2 looks like this: $emailModel = new Craft\EmailModel(); $emailModel->subject = 'My Subject'; $emailModel->body = 'My Body'; $emailModel->htmlBody = '<html><body>My HTML Body</body></html>'; $emailModel->toEmail = '[email protected]'; craft()->email->sendEmail($emailModel);