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 => 'your.host.name', :user_name => '<username>', :password => '<password>', :authentication => 'plain', :enable_starttls_auto => true } end
When using TLS, some mail servers provide certificates that are self-signed or whose names do not exactly match the hostname given in the address. OpenSSL will reject these by default. The best remedy is to use the correct hostname or update the certificate authorities trusted by your ruby. If that isn’t possible, you can control this behavior with an :openssl_verify_mode setting. Its value may be either an OpenSSL verify mode constant (OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE), or a string containing the name of an OpenSSL verify mode (none, peer, client_once, fail_if_no_peer_cert).
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 76 def initialize(values) self.settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 25, :domain => 'localhost.localdomain', :user_name => nil, :password => nil, :authentication => nil, :enable_starttls_auto => true, :openssl_verify_mode => nil }.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 92 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] if smtp.respond_to?(:enable_starttls_auto) unless settings[:openssl_verify_mode] smtp.enable_starttls_auto else openssl_verify_mode = settings[:openssl_verify_mode] if openssl_verify_mode.kind_of?(String) openssl_verify_mode = "OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_#{openssl_verify_mode.upcase}".constantize end context = Net::SMTP.default_ssl_context context.verify_mode = openssl_verify_mode smtp.enable_starttls_auto(context) end end end response = nil smtp.start(settings[:domain], settings[:user_name], settings[:password], settings[:authentication]) do |smtp| response = smtp.sendmail(message, envelope_from, destinations) end return settings[:return_response] ? response : self end