Archiving your Sent Mail with the RailMail Plugin

Daniel Butler — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 06:12:00 -0400

Scott Fleckenstein of Rubyred Labs has announced the release of RailMail, a Ruby on Rails plugin that, “traps any mail sent through ActionMailer (when the delivery_method is set to :railmail), stores it in a database, and provides an interface to view those messages.”

Once installed into your app using script/plugin install http://hg.nullstyle.com/raw/railmail, enable it in your environment.rb file:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :railmail

To log messages and pass them through a SMTP mailer, add the following code

config.after_initialize do
  Railmail::ActionMailer::InstanceMethods.\ 
    railmail_settings[:passthrough] = :smtp 
end

Simple concept, easy implementation, big results.

RailMail Home Page
Blog Post about RailMail
RailMail at the Rails Plugins Directory

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