Rails ActionMailer - format sender and recipient name/email address

Question

Hi,

Is there a way to specify email AND name for sender and recipient info when using ActionMailer?

Typically you'd do:

@recipients   = "#{user.email}"
@from         = "[email protected]"
@subject      = "Hi"
@content_type = "text/html"

But, I want to specify name as well-- MyCompany <[email protected]>, John Doe <john.doe@mycompany>.

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks, Amie

Answer 1

@recipients   = "\"#{user.name}\" <#{user.email}>"
@from         = "\"MyCompany\" <[email protected]>"

Answer 2

Hi,

within Rails 2.3.3 a bug within the ActionMailer was introduced. You can see the ticket over here Ticket #2340. It's resolved in 2-3-stable and master so it will be fixed in 3.x and 2.3.6.

For fixing the problem within 2.3.* you can use the code provided within the ticket comments:

module ActionMailer
  class Base
    def perform_delivery_smtp(mail)
      destinations = mail.destinations
      mail.ready_to_send
      sender = (mail['return-path'] && mail['return-path'].spec) || Array(mail.from).first

      smtp = Net::SMTP.new(smtp_settings[:address], smtp_settings[:port])
      smtp.enable_starttls_auto if smtp_settings[:enable_starttls_auto] && smtp.respond_to?(:enable_starttls_auto)
      smtp.start(smtp_settings[:domain], smtp_settings[:user_name], smtp_settings[:password],
                 smtp_settings[:authentication]) do |smtp|
        smtp.sendmail(mail.encoded, sender, destinations)
      end
    end
  end
end

Answer 3

Another irritating aspect, at least with the new AR format, is to remember that 'default' is called on the class level. Referencing routines that are instance-only causes it to silently fail and give when you try to use it:

 NoMethodError: undefined method `new_post' for Notifier:Class

Here's what I ended up using:

def self.named_email(name,email) "\"#{name}\" <#{email}>" end
default :from => named_email(user.name, user.email)

Answer 4

Thank you, Eduardo Scoz and anka !!! your answers its very helpfull for me!