Question

I’m trying to send mail using the :mail function built into Rails 3 like this:

  default from: "Me <[e-mail]>"

  def gift
      mail :to => "[e-mail]", :subject => "test"
  end

Then I have a file called setup_mail.rb in config/initializers:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.default_charset = "utf-8"
  config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
  config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
       :authentication => :plain,
       :address => "smtp.mailgun.org",
       :port => 587,
       :domain => "myname.mailgun.org",
       :user_name => "[e-mail]",
       :password => "mypass"
  }
}

I added that code then restarted my server, but the app loads indefinitely.

Answer 1

You shouldn’t be accessing config.action_mailer from within an initializer. Remove the wrapping ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings block and just change all config.action_mailer entries to ActionMailer::Base:

ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8"
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :authentication => :plain,
  :address => "smtp.mailgun.org",
  :port => 587,
  :domain => "myname.mailgun.org",
  :user_name => "[e-mail]",
  :password => "mypass"
}