The Rails™ 3 Way, Second Edition

Chapter 16. Action Mailer

It’s a cool way to send emails without tons of code

—Jake Scruggs

Integration with email is a crucial part of most modern web application projects. Whether it’s sign-up confirmations, password recovery, or letting users control their accounts via email, you’ll be happy to hear that Rails offers great support for both sending and receiving email, thanks to its Action Mailer 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 Action Mailer framework and by writing mailer models, the entities in Rails that encapsulate code having to do with email handling.

16.1 Setup

By default, Rails will try to send email via SMTP (port 25) of localhost. If ...