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- Action Mailer Basics
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- ====================
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- This guide provides you with all you need to get started in sending and
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- Introduction
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- Action Mailer allows you to send emails from your application using mailer classes
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- end
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- The method `welcome_email` returns a `ActionMailer::MessageDelivery` object which
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- can then just be told `deliver_now` or `deliver_later` to send itself out. The
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- `ActionMailer::MessageDelivery` object is just a wrapper around a `Mail::Message`. If
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- you want to inspect, alter or do anything else with the `Mail::Message` object you can
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- * `headers` - Specifies any header on the email you want. You can pass a hash of
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- * `attachments` - Allows you to add attachments to your email. For example,
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- * `mail` - Sends the actual email itself. You can pass in headers as a hash to
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- When the `mail` method will be triggered, it will send a multipart email with
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- the first part being a `multipart/alternative` containing the plain text and
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- HTML email messages.
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- NOTE: Mail will automatically Base64 encode an attachment. If you want something
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- * Pass the file name and specify headers and content and Action Mailer and Mail
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- ```ruby
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- encoded_content = SpecialEncode(File.read('/path/to/filename.jpg'))
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- attachments['filename.jpg'] = {
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- }
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- ```
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- #### Making Inline Attachments
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- def welcome
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- ```
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- which attachment you want to show, calling `url` on it and then passing the
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- <p>Hello there, this is our image</p>
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-
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- ```
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- <p>Hello there, this is our image</p>
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- #### Sending Email To Multiple Recipients
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- informing all admins of a new signup) by setting the list of emails to the `:to`
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- with the addresses separated by commas.
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- ```ruby
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- class AdminMailer < ActionMailer::Base
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- default to: Proc.new { Admin.pluck(:email) },
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- from: 'notification@example.com'
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-
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- def new_registration(user)
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- mail(subject: "New User Signup: #{@user.email}")
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- ```
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- The same format can be used to set carbon copy (Cc:) and blind carbon copy
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- (Bcc:) recipients, by using the `:cc` and `:bcc` keys respectively.
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- #### Sending Email With Name
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-
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- Sometimes you wish to show the name of the person instead of just their email
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- address when they receive the email. The trick to doing that is to format the
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- email address in the format `"Full Name <email>"`.
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- ```ruby
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- def welcome_email(user)
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- @user = user
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- email_with_name = %("#{@user.name}" <#{@user.email}>)
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- mail(to: email_with_name, subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site')
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- Mailer views are located in the `app/views/name_of_mailer_class` directory. The
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- specific mailer view is known to the class because its name is the same as the
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- mailer method. In our example from above, our mailer view for the
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- `welcome_email` method will be in `app/views/user_mailer/welcome_email.html.erb`
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- for the HTML version and `welcome_email.text.erb` for the plain text version.
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- To change the default mailer view for your action you do something like:
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- ```ruby
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- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
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- default from: 'notifications@example.com'
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-
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- def welcome_email(user)
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- @user = user
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- @url = 'http://example.com/login'
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- mail(to: @user.email,
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- subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site',
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- template_path: 'notifications',
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- template_name: 'another')
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- end
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- end
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- ```
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- In this case it will look for templates at `app/views/notifications` with name
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- `another`. You can also specify an array of paths for `template_path`, and they
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- will be searched in order.
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-
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- If you want more flexibility you can also pass a block and render specific
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- templates or even render inline or text without using a template file:
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- ```ruby
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- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
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- default from: 'notifications@example.com'
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-
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- def welcome_email(user)
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- @user = user
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- @url = 'http://example.com/login'
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- mail(to: @user.email,
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- subject: 'Welcome to My Awesome Site') do |format|
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- format.html { render 'another_template' }
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- format.text { render text: 'Render text' }
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- end
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- end
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- This will render the template 'another_template.html.erb' for the HTML part and
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- use the rendered text for the text part. The render command is the same one used
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- inside of Action Controller, so you can use all the same options, such as
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- `:text`, `:inline` etc.
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-
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- ### Action Mailer Layouts
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-
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- Just like controller views, you can also have mailer layouts. The layout name
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- needs to be the same as your mailer, such as `user_mailer.html.erb` and
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- `user_mailer.text.erb` to be automatically recognized by your mailer as a
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- layout.
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-
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- In order to use a different file, call `layout` in your mailer:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
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- layout 'awesome' # use awesome.(html|text).erb as the layout
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- Just like with controller views, use `yield` to render the view inside the
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- layout.
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-
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- You can also pass in a `layout: 'layout_name'` option to the render call inside
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- the format block to specify different layouts for different formats:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
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- def welcome_email(user)
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- mail(to: user.email) do |format|
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- format.html { render layout: 'my_layout' }
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- format.text
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- end
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- end
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- Will render the HTML part using the `my_layout.html.erb` file and the text part
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- with the usual `user_mailer.text.erb` file if it exists.
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-
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- ### Generating URLs in Action Mailer Views
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-
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- Unlike controllers, the mailer instance doesn't have any context about the
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- incoming request so you'll need to provide the `:host` parameter yourself.
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-
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- As the `:host` usually is consistent across the application you can configure it
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- globally in `config/application.rb`:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'example.com' }
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- ```
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-
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- Because of this behavior you cannot use any of the `*_path` helpers inside of
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- an email. Instead you will need to use the associated `*_url` helper. For example
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- instead of using
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-
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- ```
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- <%= link_to 'welcome', welcome_path %>
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- ```
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-
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- You will need to use:
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-
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- ```
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- <%= link_to 'welcome', welcome_url %>
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- ```
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-
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- By using the full URL, your links will now work in your emails.
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-
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- #### generating URLs with `url_for`
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-
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- You need to pass the `only_path: false` option when using `url_for`. This will
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- ensure that absolute URLs are generated because the `url_for` view helper will,
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- by default, generate relative URLs when a `:host` option isn't explicitly
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- provided.
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-
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- ```erb
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- <%= url_for(controller: 'welcome',
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- action: 'greeting',
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- only_path: false) %>
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- ```
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-
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- If you did not configure the `:host` option globally make sure to pass it to
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- `url_for`.
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-
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-
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- ```erb
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- <%= url_for(host: 'example.com',
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- controller: 'welcome',
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- action: 'greeting') %>
492
- ```
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-
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- NOTE: When you explicitly pass the `:host` Rails will always generate absolute
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- URLs, so there is no need to pass `only_path: false`.
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-
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- #### generating URLs with named routes
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-
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- Email clients have no web context and so paths have no base URL to form complete
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- web addresses. Thus, you should always use the "_url" variant of named route
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- helpers.
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-
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- If you did not configure the `:host` option globally make sure to pass it to the
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- url helper.
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-
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- ```erb
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- <%= user_url(@user, host: 'example.com') %>
508
- ```
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-
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- NOTE: non-`GET` links require [jQuery UJS](https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs)
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- and won't work in mailer templates. They will result in normal `GET` requests.
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-
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- ### Sending Multipart Emails
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-
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- Action Mailer will automatically send multipart emails if you have different
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- templates for the same action. So, for our UserMailer example, if you have
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- `welcome_email.text.erb` and `welcome_email.html.erb` in
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- `app/views/user_mailer`, Action Mailer will automatically send a multipart email
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- with the HTML and text versions setup as different parts.
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-
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- The order of the parts getting inserted is determined by the `:parts_order`
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- inside of the `ActionMailer::Base.default` method.
523
-
524
- ### Sending Emails with Dynamic Delivery Options
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-
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- If you wish to override the default delivery options (e.g. SMTP credentials)
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- while delivering emails, you can do this using `delivery_method_options` in the
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- mailer action.
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-
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- ```ruby
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- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
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- def welcome_email(user, company)
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- @user = user
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- @url = user_url(@user)
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- delivery_options = { user_name: company.smtp_user,
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- password: company.smtp_password,
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- address: company.smtp_host }
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- mail(to: @user.email,
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- subject: "Please see the Terms and Conditions attached",
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- delivery_method_options: delivery_options)
541
- end
542
- end
543
- ```
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-
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- ### Sending Emails without Template Rendering
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-
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- There may be cases in which you want to skip the template rendering step and
548
- supply the email body as a string. You can achieve this using the `:body`
549
- option. In such cases don't forget to add the `:content_type` option. Rails
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- will default to `text/plain` otherwise.
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-
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- ```ruby
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- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
554
- def welcome_email(user, email_body)
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- mail(to: user.email,
556
- body: email_body,
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- content_type: "text/html",
558
- subject: "Already rendered!")
559
- end
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- end
561
- ```
562
-
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- Receiving Emails
564
- ----------------
565
-
566
- Receiving and parsing emails with Action Mailer can be a rather complex
567
- endeavor. Before your email reaches your Rails app, you would have had to
568
- configure your system to somehow forward emails to your app, which needs to be
569
- listening for that. So, to receive emails in your Rails app you'll need to:
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-
571
- * Implement a `receive` method in your mailer.
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-
573
- * Configure your email server to forward emails from the address(es) you would
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- like your app to receive to `/path/to/app/bin/rails runner
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- 'UserMailer.receive(STDIN.read)'`.
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-
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- Once a method called `receive` is defined in any mailer, Action Mailer will
578
- parse the raw incoming email into an email object, decode it, instantiate a new
579
- mailer, and pass the email object to the mailer `receive` instance
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- method. Here's an example:
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-
582
- ```ruby
583
- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
584
- def receive(email)
585
- page = Page.find_by(address: email.to.first)
586
- page.emails.create(
587
- subject: email.subject,
588
- body: email.body
589
- )
590
-
591
- if email.has_attachments?
592
- email.attachments.each do |attachment|
593
- page.attachments.create({
594
- file: attachment,
595
- description: email.subject
596
- })
597
- end
598
- end
599
- end
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- end
601
- ```
602
-
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- Action Mailer Callbacks
604
- ---------------------------
605
-
606
- Action Mailer allows for you to specify a `before_action`, `after_action` and
607
- `around_action`.
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-
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- * Filters can be specified with a block or a symbol to a method in the mailer
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- class similar to controllers.
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-
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- * You could use a `before_action` to populate the mail object with defaults,
613
- delivery_method_options or insert default headers and attachments.
614
-
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- * You could use an `after_action` to do similar setup as a `before_action` but
616
- using instance variables set in your mailer action.
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-
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- ```ruby
619
- class UserMailer < ApplicationMailer
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- after_action :set_delivery_options,
621
- :prevent_delivery_to_guests,
622
- :set_business_headers
623
-
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- def feedback_message(business, user)
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- @business = business
626
- @user = user
627
- mail
628
- end
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-
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- def campaign_message(business, user)
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- @business = business
632
- @user = user
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- end
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-
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- private
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-
637
- def set_delivery_options
638
- # You have access to the mail instance,
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- # @business and @user instance variables here
640
- if @business && @business.has_smtp_settings?
641
- mail.delivery_method.settings.merge!(@business.smtp_settings)
642
- end
643
- end
644
-
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- def prevent_delivery_to_guests
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- if @user && @user.guest?
647
- mail.perform_deliveries = false
648
- end
649
- end
650
-
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- def set_business_headers
652
- if @business
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- headers["X-SMTPAPI-CATEGORY"] = @business.code
654
- end
655
- end
656
- end
657
- ```
658
-
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- * Mailer Filters abort further processing if body is set to a non-nil value.
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-
661
- Using Action Mailer Helpers
662
- ---------------------------
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-
664
- Action Mailer now just inherits from `AbstractController`, so you have access to
665
- the same generic helpers as you do in Action Controller.
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-
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- Action Mailer Configuration
668
- ---------------------------
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-
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- The following configuration options are best made in one of the environment
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- files (environment.rb, production.rb, etc...)
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-
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- | Configuration | Description |
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- |---------------|-------------|
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- |`logger`|Generates information on the mailing run if available. Can be set to `nil` for no logging. Compatible with both Ruby's own `Logger` and `Log4r` loggers.|
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- |`smtp_settings`|Allows detailed configuration for `:smtp` delivery method:<ul><li>`:address` - Allows you to use a remote mail server. Just change it from its default `"localhost"` setting.</li><li>`:port` - On the off chance that your mail server doesn't run on port 25, you can change it.</li><li>`:domain` - If you need to specify a HELO domain, you can do it here.</li><li>`:user_name` - If your mail server requires authentication, set the username in this setting.</li><li>`:password` - If your mail server requires authentication, set the password in this setting.</li><li>`:authentication` - If your mail server requires authentication, you need to specify the authentication type here. This is a symbol and one of `:plain` (will send the password in the clear), `:login` (will send password Base64 encoded) or `:cram_md5` (combines a Challenge/Response mechanism to exchange information and a cryptographic Message Digest 5 algorithm to hash important information)</li><li>`:enable_starttls_auto` - Detects if STARTTLS is enabled in your SMTP server and starts to use it. Defaults to `true`.</li><li>`:openssl_verify_mode` - When using TLS, you can set how OpenSSL checks the certificate. This is really useful if you need to validate a self-signed and/or a wildcard certificate. You can use the name of an OpenSSL verify constant ('none', 'peer', 'client_once', 'fail_if_no_peer_cert') or directly the constant (`OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE`, `OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER`, ...).</li></ul>|
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- |`sendmail_settings`|Allows you to override options for the `:sendmail` delivery method.<ul><li>`:location` - The location of the sendmail executable. Defaults to `/usr/sbin/sendmail`.</li><li>`:arguments` - The command line arguments to be passed to sendmail. Defaults to `-i -t`.</li></ul>|
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- |`raise_delivery_errors`|Whether or not errors should be raised if the email fails to be delivered. This only works if the external email server is configured for immediate delivery.|
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- |`delivery_method`|Defines a delivery method. Possible values are:<ul><li>`:smtp` (default), can be configured by using `config.action_mailer.smtp_settings`.</li><li>`:sendmail`, can be configured by using `config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings`.</li><li>`:file`: save emails to files; can be configured by using `config.action_mailer.file_settings`.</li><li>`:test`: save emails to `ActionMailer::Base.deliveries` array.</li></ul>See [API docs](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html) for more info.|
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- |`perform_deliveries`|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.|
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- |`deliveries`|Keeps an array of all the emails sent out through the Action Mailer with delivery_method :test. Most useful for unit and functional testing.|
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- |`default_options`|Allows you to set default values for the `mail` method options (`:from`, `:reply_to`, etc.).|
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-
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- For a complete writeup of possible configurations see the
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- [Configuring Action Mailer](configuring.html#configuring-action-mailer) in
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- our Configuring Rails Applications guide.
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-
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- ### Example Action Mailer Configuration
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-
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- An example would be adding the following to your appropriate
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- `config/environments/$RAILS_ENV.rb` file:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail
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- # Defaults to:
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- # config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings = {
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- # location: '/usr/sbin/sendmail',
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- # arguments: '-i -t'
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- # }
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- config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
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- config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
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- config.action_mailer.default_options = {from: 'no-reply@example.com'}
703
- ```
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-
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- ### Action Mailer Configuration for Gmail
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-
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- As Action Mailer now uses the [Mail gem](https://github.com/mikel/mail), this
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- becomes as simple as adding to your `config/environments/$RAILS_ENV.rb` file:
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-
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- ```ruby
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- config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
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- config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
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- address: 'smtp.gmail.com',
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- port: 587,
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- domain: 'example.com',
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- user_name: '<username>',
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- password: '<password>',
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- authentication: 'plain',
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- enable_starttls_auto: true }
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- ```
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-
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- Mailer Testing
723
- --------------
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-
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- You can find detailed instructions on how to test your mailers in the
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- [testing guide](testing.html#testing-your-mailers).
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-
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- Intercepting Emails
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- -------------------
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-
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- There are situations where you need to edit an email before it's
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- delivered. Fortunately Action Mailer provides hooks to intercept every
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- email. You can register an interceptor to make modifications to mail messages
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- right before they are handed to the delivery agents.
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-
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- ```ruby
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- class SandboxEmailInterceptor
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- def self.delivering_email(message)
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- message.to = ['sandbox@example.com']
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- end
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- Before the interceptor can do its job you need to register it with the Action
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- Mailer framework. You can do this in an initializer file
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- `config/initializers/sandbox_email_interceptor.rb`
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-
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- ```ruby
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- if Rails.env.staging?
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- ActionMailer::Base.register_interceptor(SandboxEmailInterceptor)
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- end
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- ```
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-
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- NOTE: The example above uses a custom environment called "staging" for a
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- production like server but for testing purposes. You can read
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- [Creating Rails environments](configuring.html#creating-rails-environments)
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- for more information about custom Rails environments.