Enhance mailing plugin with collection overrides, detailed access controls, and improved rich text serialization logic

README.md

@@ -359,6 +359,119 @@ EMAIL_PASS=your-app-password
 EMAIL_FROM=noreply@yoursite.com
 ```
 
+## Security and Access Control
+
+### Collection Access Restrictions
+
+By default, both email templates and emails collections allow full access (`read/create/update/delete: () => true`). For production use, you should configure proper access restrictions using collection overrides:
+
+```typescript
+mailingPlugin({
+  // ... other config
+  collections: {
+    templates: {
+      access: {
+        read: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:read')
+        },
+        create: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:create')
+        },
+        update: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:update')
+        },
+        delete: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin'
+        },
+      }
+    },
+    emails: {
+      access: {
+        read: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:read')
+        },
+        create: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:create')
+        },
+        update: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:update')
+        },
+        delete: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+          if (!user) return false
+          return user.role === 'admin'
+        },
+      }
+    }
+  }
+})
+```
+
+### Collection Overrides
+
+You can override any collection configuration using the `collections.templates` or `collections.emails` options. This includes:
+
+- **Access controls** - Restrict who can read/create/update/delete
+- **Admin UI settings** - Customize admin interface appearance
+- **Field modifications** - Add custom fields or modify existing ones
+- **Hooks** - Add custom validation or processing logic
+
+Example with additional custom fields:
+
+```typescript
+mailingPlugin({
+  // ... other config
+  collections: {
+    templates: {
+      admin: {
+        group: 'Custom Marketing',
+        description: 'Custom email templates with enhanced features'
+      },
+      fields: [
+        // Plugin's default fields are preserved
+        {
+          name: 'category',
+          type: 'select',
+          options: [
+            { label: 'Marketing', value: 'marketing' },
+            { label: 'Transactional', value: 'transactional' },
+            { label: 'System', value: 'system' }
+          ],
+          admin: {
+            position: 'sidebar'
+          }
+        },
+        {
+          name: 'tags',
+          type: 'text',
+          hasMany: true,
+          admin: {
+            description: 'Tags for organizing templates'
+          }
+        }
+      ],
+      hooks: {
+        beforeChange: [
+          ({ data, req }) => {
+            // Custom validation logic
+            if (data.category === 'system' && req.user?.role !== 'admin') {
+              throw new Error('Only admins can create system templates')
+            }
+            return data
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+})
+```
+
 ## TypeScript Support
 
 The plugin includes full TypeScript definitions. Import types as needed:

dev/payload.config.ts

@@ -146,6 +146,123 @@ const buildConfigWithMemoryDB = async () => {
         retryDelay: 60000, // 1 minute for dev
         queue: 'email-queue',
 
+        // Example: Collection overrides for customization
+        // Uncomment and modify as needed for your use case
+        /*
+        collections: {
+          templates: {
+            // Custom access controls - restrict who can manage templates
+            access: {
+              read: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:read')
+              },
+              create: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:create')
+              },
+              update: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:update')
+              },
+              delete: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin'
+              },
+            },
+            // Custom admin UI settings
+            admin: {
+              group: 'Marketing',
+              description: 'Email templates with enhanced security and categorization'
+            },
+            // Add custom fields to templates
+            fields: [
+              // Default plugin fields are automatically included
+              {
+                name: 'category',
+                type: 'select',
+                options: [
+                  { label: 'Marketing', value: 'marketing' },
+                  { label: 'Transactional', value: 'transactional' },
+                  { label: 'System Notifications', value: 'system' }
+                ],
+                defaultValue: 'transactional',
+                admin: {
+                  position: 'sidebar',
+                  description: 'Template category for organization'
+                }
+              },
+              {
+                name: 'tags',
+                type: 'text',
+                hasMany: true,
+                admin: {
+                  position: 'sidebar',
+                  description: 'Tags for easy template filtering'
+                }
+              },
+              {
+                name: 'isActive',
+                type: 'checkbox',
+                defaultValue: true,
+                admin: {
+                  position: 'sidebar',
+                  description: 'Only active templates can be used'
+                }
+              }
+            ],
+            // Custom validation hooks
+            hooks: {
+              beforeChange: [
+                ({ data, req }) => {
+                  // Example: Only admins can create system templates
+                  if (data.category === 'system' && req.user?.role !== 'admin') {
+                    throw new Error('Only administrators can create system notification templates')
+                  }
+
+                  // Example: Auto-generate slug if not provided
+                  if (!data.slug && data.name) {
+                    data.slug = data.name.toLowerCase()
+                      .replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '-')
+                      .replace(/-+/g, '-')
+                      .replace(/^-|-$/g, '')
+                  }
+
+                  return data
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          },
+          emails: {
+            // Restrict access to emails collection
+            access: {
+              read: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:read')
+              },
+              create: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:create')
+              },
+              update: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin' || user.permissions?.includes('mailing:update')
+              },
+              delete: ({ req: { user } }) => {
+                if (!user) return false
+                return user.role === 'admin'
+              },
+            },
+            // Custom admin configuration for emails
+            admin: {
+              group: 'Marketing',
+              description: 'Email delivery tracking and management',
+              defaultColumns: ['subject', 'to', 'status', 'priority', 'scheduledAt'],
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        */
+
         // Optional: Custom rich text editor configuration
         // Comment out to use default lexical editor
         richTextEditor: lexicalEditor({

src/plugin.ts

@@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ export const mailingPlugin = (pluginConfig: MailingPluginConfig) => (config: Con
     },
     // Update relationship fields to point to correct templates collection
     fields: (emailsOverrides.fields || Emails.fields).map((field: any) => {
-      if (field.name === 'template' && field.type === 'relationship') {
+      if (field &&
+          typeof field === 'object' &&
+          field.name === 'template' &&
+          field.type === 'relationship') {
         return {
           ...field,
           relationTo: templatesSlug,
@@ -95,12 +98,10 @@ export const mailingPlugin = (pluginConfig: MailingPluginConfig) => (config: Con
               }
             } catch (error) {
               console.error('❌ Error processing email queue:', error)
-              return {
+              const errorMessage = error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'Unknown error'
-                output: {
+
-                  success: false,
+              // Properly fail the job by throwing the error
-                  error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : 'Unknown error'
+              throw new Error(`Email queue processing failed: ${errorMessage}`)
-                }
-              }
             }
           },
           interfaceName: 'ProcessEmailQueueJob',

src/utils/richTextSerializer.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
-// Using any type for now since Lexical types have import issues
+// Proper type definitions for Lexical serialization
-// import type { SerializedEditorState } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical/lexical'
+interface SerializedEditorState {
-type SerializedEditorState = any
+  root: {
+    children: SerializedLexicalNode[]
+  }
+}
+
+interface SerializedLexicalNode {
+  type: string
+  children?: SerializedLexicalNode[]
+  text?: string
+  format?: number
+  tag?: string
+  listType?: 'number' | 'bullet'
+  url?: string
+  newTab?: boolean
+}
 
 /**
  * Converts Lexical richtext content to HTML
@@ -24,11 +38,11 @@ export function serializeRichTextToText(richTextData: SerializedEditorState): st
   return serializeNodesToText(richTextData.root.children)
 }
 
-function serializeNodesToHTML(nodes: any[]): string {
+function serializeNodesToHTML(nodes: SerializedLexicalNode[]): string {
   return nodes.map(node => serializeNodeToHTML(node)).join('')
 }
 
-function serializeNodeToHTML(node: any): string {
+function serializeNodeToHTML(node: SerializedLexicalNode): string {
   if (!node) return ''
 
   switch (node.type) {
@@ -44,13 +58,22 @@ function serializeNodeToHTML(node: any): string {
     case 'text':
       let text = node.text || ''
 
-      // Apply text formatting
+      // Apply text formatting using proper nesting order
       if (node.format) {
-        if (node.format & 1) text = `<strong>${text}</strong>` // Bold
+        const formatFlags = {
-        if (node.format & 2) text = `<em>${text}</em>` // Italic
+          bold: (node.format & 1) !== 0,
-        if (node.format & 4) text = `<s>${text}</s>` // Strikethrough  
+          italic: (node.format & 2) !== 0,
-        if (node.format & 8) text = `<u>${text}</u>` // Underline
+          strikethrough: (node.format & 4) !== 0,
-        if (node.format & 16) text = `<code>${text}</code>` // Code
+          underline: (node.format & 8) !== 0,
+          code: (node.format & 16) !== 0,
+        }
+
+        // Apply formatting in proper nesting order: code > bold > italic > underline > strikethrough
+        if (formatFlags.code) text = `<code>${text}</code>`
+        if (formatFlags.bold) text = `<strong>${text}</strong>`
+        if (formatFlags.italic) text = `<em>${text}</em>`
+        if (formatFlags.underline) text = `<u>${text}</u>`
+        if (formatFlags.strikethrough) text = `<s>${text}</s>`
       }
 
       return text
@@ -89,11 +112,11 @@ function serializeNodeToHTML(node: any): string {
   }
 }
 
-function serializeNodesToText(nodes: any[]): string {
+function serializeNodesToText(nodes: SerializedLexicalNode[]): string {
   return nodes.map(node => serializeNodeToText(node)).join('')
 }
 
-function serializeNodeToText(node: any): string {
+function serializeNodeToText(node: SerializedLexicalNode): string {
   if (!node) return ''
 
   switch (node.type) {