How to Overlay a file in etc directory other than clientlibs

Hi Manoj

     As scott mentioned, you can change the file at the source only. I would like to explain the reason here.

     Before you read on , One main point , You should not keep any email templates under apps, since anonymous users will not have any read permission for content under apps in publish.

     I have tried to explain below on why you should change file path in the source itself .

     You should read overlay together with sling resolution. The documentation Overlays - docs.adobe.com  will clearly tell you

       On a totally different context I have tried to explain one part of Sling resolution in here Template component can't override page.html , as it goes, any resource referred using a relative path will alone be considered for sling resolution and overlay. That means, if you have included a resource as <cq:include path="<name>" resourceType="community/templates/subscriptions-email/html/social.forum.components.hbs.topic/en"> , then overlay will come into picture and it will look for this resource under /apps first and then /libs

     But in your scenario, you are referring to an email template , which will always be referred using an absolute path (full path), so we cannot overlay the email template (as far as my knowledge serves me right ) and the only solution is to change the path in the source code.

Hope this helps

Thanks

Veena

You can change the value of the file at source.