Chapter 16. ActionMailer
It’s a cool way to send emails without tons of code
Integration with e-mail is a crucial part of most modern web application projects. Whether it’s support for retrieving lost passwords or letting users control their accounts via e-mail, you’ll be happy to hear that Rails offers great support for both sending and receiving e-mail, thanks to its ActionMailer framework.
In this chapter, we’ll cover what’s needed to set up your deployment to be able to send and receive mail with the ActionMailer framework and by writing mailer models, the entities in Rails that encapsulate code having to do with e-mail handling.
Setup
By default, Rails will try to send e-mail via SMTP (port ...
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