My ActionMailer is set up to send an email once a user fills out an application. After upgrading to Rails 3 and ActionMailer, gmail now seems to be classifying the response email as spam.
I use google apps for the domain (hosted by dreamhost) and have it set up to send as smtp; and I am able to directly send emails to the same users from the google apps web account, and not have it classified as spam.
My question is: are there settings or values that I should have set in the ActionMailer (etc) that might circumvent this?
One recommendation I got was to set up and SPF, but I wasn't sure about this as I was using smtp via gmail.
Here is my configuration:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:user_name => "email@domain.org",
:password => "password",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
The email is rendered as html (have a plain text one too), with attachments of the files the user uploaded to the application.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<HTML>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
</head>
<body>
<p>
Dear <%= @f.first_name + " " + @f.last_name %>,<br>
<br>
etc....
Here is how my mailer is formatted
class EmploymentMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "email@domain.org"
def employment_app_email(f, files)
@f = f
@files = files
mail(:to => ['email@domain.org', f.email], :subject => "Subject")
files.each do |file|
attachments[file[1].original_filename] = File.open(file[1].path, 'rb'){|a| a.read}
end
end
end
