ActionMailer get messageid for sent messages

Question

I am writing a rails application that sends emails when certain actions occur, users can then reply to these emails and the system needs to match the reply email to the original email sent to the user.

It seems like the best way to do this is to save the message id header field when sending messages, is this possible in ActionMailer? I can then retrieve the references header from replies and match the messages.

If this is not possible are there any alternate solutions?

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it is possible within actionmailer to access the message id, however it is possible to add your own custom headers and then reference these when the user replies.

You do this within the mailer model as follows :-

@headers["VetId"] = order.vet_id

Answer 2

another alternative is to add a tracking code to the email's 'reply to' field something like this: reply to: notification+${notifcation_id}@yourdomain.com

for example, if the notification id is 123, the user will reply to [email protected], when the system receives the email, 123 can be used to identify the original message.

Answer 3

Have a look on http://tmail.rubyforge.org/!

Answer 4

With Rails 3, this is possible:

message = Mailer.welcome(@user).deliver
message.message_id #=> 4ccc56d19...