class Mail::SMTP

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  }
end

Sending via GMail¶ ↑

Mail.defaults do
  delivery_method :smtp, { :address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
                           :port                 => 587,
                           :domain               => 'your.host.name',
                           :user_name            => '<username>',
                           :password             => '<password>',
                           :authentication       => 'plain',
                           :enable_starttls      => :auto  }
end

Configuring TLS/SSL and STARTTLS¶ ↑

A few remarks:

• when enabling ‘tls` (or `ssl`), setting (truthy values for) either `enable_starttls` or `enable_starttls_auto` will raise an ArgumentError as TLS and STARTTLS are mutually exclusive.

• to configure STARTTLS, use the ‘enable_starttls`-flag (instead of a combination of `enable_starttls` and `enable_starttls_auto`). Acceptable values are `:always`, `:auto` and `false`.

• when providing a truthy value for ‘enable_starttls`, the `enable_starttls_auto`-flag will be ignored.

• when none of ‘tls`, `ssl`, `enable_starttls` or `enable_starttls_auto` is set, the fallback will be `enable_starttls` `:auto`.

Certificate verification¶ ↑

When using TLS, some mail servers provide certificates that are self-signed or whose names do not exactly match the hostname given in the address. OpenSSL will reject these by default. The best remedy is to use the correct hostname or update the certificate authorities trusted by your ruby. If that isn’t possible, you can control this behavior with an :openssl_verify_mode setting. Its value may be either an OpenSSL verify mode constant (OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE, OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER), or a string containing the name of an OpenSSL verify mode (none, peer).

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!