Class: Mail::SMTP

Inherits:
Object show all
Defined in:
lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb

Overview

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               => 'your.host.name',
                           :user_name            => '<username>',
                           :password             => '<password>',
                           :authentication       => 'plain',
                           :enable_starttls_auto => true  }
end

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), or a string containing the name of an OpenSSL verify mode (none, peer, client_once, fail_if_no_peer_cert).

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 '[email protected]'
  from '[email protected]'
  subject 'testing sendmail'
  body 'testing sendmail'
end

Or by calling deliver on a Mail message

mail = Mail.new do
  to '[email protected]'
  from '[email protected]'
  subject 'testing sendmail'
  body 'testing sendmail'
end

mail.deliver!

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(values) ⇒ SMTP

Returns a new instance of SMTP.



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# File 'lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb', line 76

def initialize(values)
  self.settings = { :address              => "localhost",
                    :port                 => 25,
                    :domain               => 'localhost.localdomain',
                    :user_name            => nil,
                    :password             => nil,
                    :authentication       => nil,
                    :enable_starttls_auto => true,
                    :openssl_verify_mode  => nil
                  }.merge!(values)
end

Instance Attribute Details

#settings ⇒ Object

Returns the value of attribute settings.



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# File 'lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb', line 88

def settings
  @settings
end

Instance Method Details

#deliver!(mail) ⇒ Object

Send the message via SMTP. The from and to attributes are optional. If not set, they are retrieve from the Message.



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# File 'lib/mail/network/delivery_methods/smtp.rb', line 92

def deliver!(mail)

  # Set the envelope from to be either the return-path, the sender or the first from address
  envelope_from = mail.return_path || mail.sender || mail.from_addrs.first
  if envelope_from.blank?
    raise ArgumentError.new('A sender (Return-Path, Sender or From) required to send a message') 
  end
  
  destinations ||= mail.destinations if mail.respond_to?(:destinations) && mail.destinations
  if destinations.blank?
    raise ArgumentError.new('At least one recipient (To, Cc or Bcc) is required to send a message') 
  end
  
  message ||= mail.encoded if mail.respond_to?(:encoded)
  if message.blank?
    raise ArgumentError.new('A encoded content is required to send a message')
  end
  
  smtp = Net::SMTP.new(settings[:address], settings[:port])
  if settings[:enable_starttls_auto]
    if smtp.respond_to?(:enable_starttls_auto) 
      unless settings[:openssl_verify_mode]
        smtp.enable_starttls_auto
      else
        openssl_verify_mode = settings[:openssl_verify_mode]
        if openssl_verify_mode.kind_of?(String)
          openssl_verify_mode = "OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_#{openssl_verify_mode.upcase}".constantize
        end
        context = Net::SMTP.default_ssl_context
        context.verify_mode = openssl_verify_mode
        smtp.enable_starttls_auto(context)
      end
    end
  end
  
  response = nil
  smtp.start(settings[:domain], settings[:user_name], settings[:password], settings[:authentication]) do |smtp|
    response = smtp.sendmail(message, envelope_from, destinations)
  end

  return settings[:return_response] ? response : self
end