Set up mandril with mail catcher in rails

Question

I am using mandril with action mailer. On my mandril config

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:port =>           '587',
:address =>        'smtp.mandrillapp.com',
:user_name =>      ENV['MANDRILL_USERNAME'],
:password =>       ENV['MANDRILL_APIKEY'],
:domain =>         ENV['MANDRILL_DOMAIN'],
:authentication => :plain
}
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp

MandrillMailer.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = ENV['MANDRILL_API_KEY']
end

Rails.application.config do |config|
   config.mandrill_mailer.default_url_options = { host: ENV['DEFAULT_URL_HOST'] }
config.mandrill_mailer.default_url_options['protocol'] = ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'] unless ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'].blank?
end

On the action_mailer.rb

Rails.application.configure do
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: ENV['DEFAULT_URL_HOST'] }
config.action_mailer.default_url_options['protocol'] = ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'] unless ENV['DEFAULT_URL_PROTOCOL'].blank?
end

On the development.rb

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 1025 }

I am running mail catcher and visiting http://localhost:1080/ but it doesn't work, do I need to add more configurations ?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '15 at 12:58

I'm using the default smpt_settings with mailcatcher in dev mode. so I didnt specify the

 config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = ..

at all.

But I have to launch mailcatcher in the foreground with

mailcatcher -f

for it to work (it's somehow buggy as deamon). This has the advantage, that you can see if it receives the mail requests.

Set up mandril with mail catcher in rails

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