Send multiple emails with Sendgrid not working with X-SMTPAPI headers

Question

I have been sending emails as follows:

def send
    ActionMailer::Base.mail(content_type: "text/html", from: "\"name\" <email@gmail.com>", to: "email2@gmail.com", subject: "subject", body: "<h1>Hi</h1>" , priority: 2).deliver
end

And has been working well but now I want to send multiple emails because I need to handle 1000+ users. So I have been reading that I can accomplish this with X-SMTPAPI header so I tried this

  def send_all
    recipients = ["users1@gmail.com", "users2@gmail.com"]
    ActionMailer::Base.headers["X-SMTPAPI"] = { :to => recipients }.to_json
    ActionMailer::Base.mail(content_type: "text/html", from: "\"name\" <email@gmail.com>", to: "email2@gmail.com", subject: "subject", body: "<h1>Hi</h1>" , priority: 2).deliver
  end

But Sendgrid just emails to email2@gmail.com and not the headers. How can I fix this?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '17 at 17:11

I did it as follows, I don't think is the best solution because I'm loading Sendgrid config again but it worked

def send
    Mail.defaults do
      delivery_method :smtp, { :address   => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
                               :port      => 587,
                               :domain    => 'sendgrid.com',
                               :user_name => 'yourSendGridUsername',
                               :password  => 'yourSendGridPassword',
                               :authentication => 'plain',
                               :enable_starttls_auto => true }
    end

        recipients = ["users1@gmail.com", "users2@gmail.com"]

        mail = Mail.deliver do
          header['X-SMTPAPI'] =  { :to => recipients }.to_json
          to "ignore@gmail.com"
          from 'email@gmail.com'
          subject 'Ruby Example using X-SMTPAPI header'
          text_part do
            body 'You would put your content here, but I am going to say: Hello world!'
          end
          html_part do
            content_type 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
            body '<b>Hello world!</b><br>Glad to have you here!'
          end
        end

end

Also I needed to require 'mail' in the class

Send multiple emails with Sendgrid not working with X-SMTPAPI headers

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