Sending Email with SMTP

Mail allows you to send emails using SMTP. This is done by wrapping Net::SMTP in an easy to use manner.

Sending via SMTP server on Localhost

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.

Sending via MobileMe

  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

Sending via GMail

  Mail.defaults do
    delivery_method :smtp, { :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
                             :port                 => 587,
                             :domain               => 'baci.lindsaar.net',
                             :user_name            => '<username>',
                             :password             => '<password>',
                             :authentication       => 'plain',
                             :enable_starttls_auto => true  }
  end

Others

Feel free to send me other examples that were tricky

Delivering the email

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!