DZone Snippets: actionmailer code

mail sending program using ssl using gmail account

jmanivannancse (manivannan) — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:08:35 GMT

// sending mail using ruby through ssl



require 'rubygems'

require 'action_mailer'

require "net/smtp"

require "tlsmail"



class MailSent < ActionMailer::Base

  def message(r = "", m = "", s = "", f = "", c = nil)

    begin

      fail StandardError, "No Recipient" if r.empty? #and b.empty?

      fail StandardError, "No Message" if m.empty? 

      fail StandardError, "No Subject" if s.empty?

      fail StandardError, "No From" if s.empty?

      from f

      recipients r

      cc c if c and !c.empty?

      subject s

      body m

    rescue Exception => e

      puts e

    end

  end

end



class SentMail

  def get_value(to,msg,sub,from,pass=nil,cc=nil)

    begin



      Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)

      ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {

        :address => "smtp.gmail.com",

        :port => "587",

        :domain => "gmail.com",

        :user_name => "example.com,

        :password => "youraccountpassword",

        :authentication => :plain

      }

      MailSent.deliver_message(to,msg,sub,from,cc)

    rescue Exception=>e

      puts e

    end

  end

end

Using POP3 to Retrieve Email for Rails App

timmorgan (Tim Morgan) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:40:30 GMT

Put this in a file called "inbox" in the scripts/ directory of your Rails app. change the host, username, and password to match.

Set up a cron job to run this script every so often (frequency depends on your needs).



#!/usr/bin/env ruby



require 'net/pop'

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/environment'



logger = RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER



logger.info "Running Mail Importer..." 

Net::POP3.start("localhost", nil, "username", "password") do |pop|

  if pop.mails.empty?

    logger.info "NO MAIL" 

  else

    pop.mails.each do |email|

      begin

        logger.info "receiving mail..." 

        Notifier.receive(email.pop)

        email.delete

      rescue Exception => e

        logger.error "Error receiving email at " + Time.now.to_s + "::: " + e.message

      end

    end

  end

end

logger.info "Finished Mail Importer."

Simplifying ActionMailer development in Ruby on Rails

peter (Peter Cooperx) — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 08:20:25 GMT

Sick of writing almost the same thing over and over in your ActionMailer classes? Skip all that, and use something like this.



class Mailer < ActionMailer::Base



  helper ActionView::Helpers::UrlHelper



  def generic_mailer(options)

    @recipients = options[:recipients] || "me@privacy.net"

    @from = options[:from] || "me@privacy.net"

    @cc = options[:cc] || ""

    @bcc = options[:bcc] || ""

    @subject = options[:subject] || ""

    @body = options[:body] || {}

    @headers = options[:headers] || {}

    @charset = options[:charset] || "utf-8"

  end

  

  # Create placeholders for whichever e-mails you need to deal with.

  # Override mail elements where necessary

  

  def contact_us(options)

    self.generic_mailer(options)

  end



  ...



end

(If you have a configuration loaded into a constant, you could just replace the defaults above and use your app's defaults to make it all cleaner, of course)

And then from your controller you can do stuff like this:

Mailer.deliver_contact_us(

   :recipients => "x@x.com",

   :body => { 

               :name => params[:name],

               :phone => params[:phone],

               :email => params[:email],

               :message => params[:message]

             },

   :from => "y@y.com"

)