Mail allows you to send emails using SMTP. This is done by wrapping Net::SMTP in an easy to use manner.
Sending locally (to a postfix or sendmail server running on localhost) requires no special setup. Just to Mail.deliver &block or message.deliver! and it will be sent in this method.
Mail.defaults do delivery_method :smtp, { :address => "smtp.me.com", :port => 587, :domain => 'your.host.name', :user_name => '<username>', :password => '<password>', :authentication => 'plain', :enable_starttls_auto => true } end
Mail.defaults do delivery_method :smtp, { :address => "smtp.gmail.com", :port => 587, :domain => 'baci.lindsaar.net', :user_name => '<username>', :password => '<password>', :authentication => 'plain', :enable_starttls_auto => true } end
Feel free to send me other examples that were tricky
Once you have the settings right, sending the email is done by:
Mail.deliver do to 'mikel@test.lindsaar.net' from 'ada@test.lindsaar.net' subject 'testing sendmail' body 'testing sendmail' end
Or by calling deliver on a Mail message
mail = Mail.new do to 'mikel@test.lindsaar.net' from 'ada@test.lindsaar.net' subject 'testing sendmail' body 'testing sendmail' end mail.deliver!
# File lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb, line 64 def initialize(values) self.settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 25, :domain => 'localhost.localdomain', :user_name => nil, :password => nil, :authentication => nil, :enable_starttls_auto => true }.merge!(values) end
Send the message via SMTP. The from and to attributes are optional. If not set, they are retrieve from the Message.
# File lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb, line 78 def deliver!(mail) # Set the envelope from to be either the return-path, the sender or the first from address envelope_from = mail.return_path || mail.sender || mail.from_addrs.first if envelope_from.blank? raise ArgumentError.new('A sender (Return-Path, Sender or From) required to send a message') end destinations ||= mail.destinations if mail.respond_to?(:destinations) && mail.destinations if destinations.blank? raise ArgumentError.new('At least one recipient (To, Cc or Bcc) is required to send a message') end message ||= mail.encoded if mail.respond_to?(:encoded) if message.blank? raise ArgumentError.new('A encoded content is required to send a message') end smtp = Net::SMTP.new(settings[:address], settings[:port]) if settings[:enable_starttls_auto] smtp.enable_starttls_auto if smtp.respond_to?(:enable_starttls_auto) end smtp.start(settings[:domain], settings[:user_name], settings[:password], settings[:authentication]) do |smtp| smtp.sendmail(message, envelope_from, destinations) end self end
Generated with the Darkfish Rdoc Generator 2.