Question

I know that this is a simple question and asked by many more many times and i also asked this because all the previous one i have checked is based on rails 3.0.0 version and i am using the latest one. I have a user registration form which contain name and email fields. I want to do that when a user click on the submit button an email should be sent to the specified email address by the user i am using rails 3.2.5 version and gem ‘mail’ version 2.4.4 development log file shows that mail is sent to the email address but its not find in the inbox. I also know that during the development mode action mailer doesn’t sent a mail to any address but i want to do this during the development phase. My code is :

/config/initializers/setup_mail.rb

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address              => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port                 => 587,
:domain               => "asciicasts.com",
:user_name            => "asciicasts",
:password             => "secret",
:authentication       => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}

/app/mailers/user_mailer.rb

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "[e-mail]"

def registration_confirmation(user)
mail(:to => user.email, :subject => "Registered")
end
end

/app/controllers/users_controller.rb

def create
@user = User.new(params[:user])

respond_to do |format|
if @user.save
UserMailer.registration_confirmation(@user).deliver
format.html { redirect_to(@user, :notice => 'User was successfully created.') }
format.xml  { render :xml => @user, :status => :created, :location => @user }
else
format.html { render :action => "new" }
format.xml  { render :xml => @user.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end

so anyone please help me.

Answer 1

I’d run into something like this recently as well.

From config/environments/development.rb:

config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true # This entry made me think the emails should be sent, they were prior to an upgrade by a fellow developer.

I also found these emails were not being sent. Digging around, I found config/email.yml It looks like this:

development:
  :delivery_method: test
  :settings:
    :address: <email_server_address>
    :port: 25

When I changed :delivery_method: test to :delivery_method: sendmail (which is what we use at my company), it began working.

To summarize, I found that the settings in config/email.yml are evaluated last and will trump whatever’s in your individual environment file.