What is ActionMailer?

What is ActionMailer?

The ActionMailer::MessageDelivery object is a wrapper around a Mail::Message . If you want to inspect, alter, or do anything else with the Mail::Message object you can access it with the message method on the ActionMailer::MessageDelivery object.

How do I send an email to ROR?

The steps:

1. Set up a mailer with rails generate mailer.
2. Create email templates (views)
3. Tell the appropriate controller action to send the email.
4. Set up an email previewer.
5. Configure the mail settings for Gmail.
6. Set up tests.

What is Default_url_options?

The default_url_options setting is useful for constructing link URLs in email templates. Usually, the :host , i.e. the fully qualified name of the web server, is needed to be set up with this config option. It has nothing to do with sending emails, it only configures displaying links in the emails.

How do I Preview mailers in rails?

rails generates a mail preview if you use rails g mailer CustomMailer . You will get a file CustomMailerPreview inside spec/mailers/previews folder. Here you can write your method that will call the mailer and it’ll generate a preview.

How do I start MailCatcher?

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail that’s arrived so far.

What is Gmail server port?

imap.gmail.com. Requires SSL: Yes. Port: 993. Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server.

How do I Preview Mailer in Rails?

How do you send mail in Ruby?

To send the mail you use Net::SMTP to connect to the SMTP server on the local machine and then use the send_message method along with the message, the from address, and the destination address as parameters (even though the from and to addresses are within the e-mail itself, these aren’t always used to route mail).

What is Catchmail?

A catch-all account is an email address that collects all the mail sent to your domain name not sent to the other email addresses known to the server. Any emails sent to misspelled recipients at your domain, for example, will be “caught” by the catchall account.

How do I configure actionmailer to use SMTP?

:smtp (default), can be configured by using config.action_mailer.smtp_settings. :sendmail, can be configured by using config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings. :file: save emails to files; can be configured by using config.action_mailer.file_settings. :test: save emails to ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array.

What is Action Mailer?

1 What is Action Mailer? Action Mailer allows you to send emails from your application using mailer classes and views. They inherit from ActionMailer::Base and live in app/mailers.

How do I send email with 2-factor authentication?

If your Gmail account has 2-factor authentication enabled, then you will need to set an app password and use that instead of your regular password. Alternatively, you can use another ESP to send email by replacing ‘smtp.gmail.com’ above with the address of your provider.

What is the use of test in actionmailer?

:test: save emails to ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array. See API docs for more info. Determines whether deliveries are actually carried out when the deliver method is invoked on the Mail message. By default they are, but this can be turned off to help functional testing.