Rails ActionMailer on Site5

ActionMailer is the rails class that allows you to send emails from within a rails app. To get it working I did the following:

1. Visit the 'Backstage' admin area and create an email account for 'email_user' with password 'email_password'. At this point it should tell you the SMTP server is 'mail.mydomain.com'.

At this stage I decided that I would try to get it working in the console first. So I went to my application root and typed 'script/console production' and then

2. Set the configuration

ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "localhost",
  :port => 25,
  :authentication => :login,
  :user_name => 'email_user+mydomain.com',
  :password => 'email_password'
}

3. Created a mailer

class Page < ActionMailer::Base
  def about
     recipients 'tom.closeman@gmail.com'
     subject    "Wey hey - it works - again"
     from       "email_user@forfolkssake.com"
   end
end

This relied on the (blank) template 'App/Views/Page/about.html.erb' existing in my application folder.

4. Sent the message

 Page.deliver_about 

This then sent me the message. Which I thought was pretty cool.