Skip to main content Link Menu Expand (external link) Document Search Copy Copied
Aikes Docs

Rails and email

smtp2go

  1. Sign up (activation link is broken, just login)
  2. Add verified sender domain
  3. Add dns records
  4. Add a user

Rails

0. Theory

There is .deliver_now for mailers.

1. put the credentials in the correct credentials 

smtp_username: app_prod
smtp_password: balbalbala
smtp_address: mail.smtp2go.com
smtp_domain: yourdomain.com
smtp_port: 2525
smtp_from: notifications@yourdomain.com

2. put config in the correct environments

In config/environments/development.rb and config/environments/production.rb

config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_domain) }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.asset_host = Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_domain)
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  address:         Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_address),
  port:            Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_port),
  domain:          Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_domain),
  user_name:       Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_username),
  password:        Rails.application.credentials.dig(:smtp_password),
  authentication:  :plain,
  enable_starttls_auto: true,
  enable_starttls: true,
  open_timeout:    5,
  read_timeout:    5
}

config.action_mailer.perform_caching = false

Yes, you should use TLS/SSL by default.

3. Generate a mailer 

rails generate mailer user_mailer

4. Open the preview

Visit http://localhost:3000/rails/mailers.

If you don’t see the preview it might be in the rspec/mailers directory instead of in test/mailers.