Action mailer

Rails
1

class Mailman < ActionMailer::Base
def receive(email)
page = Page.find_by_address(email.to.first)
page.emails.create(
:subject => email.subject, :body => email.body
)

  if email.has_attachments?
    for attachment in email.attachments
      page.attachments.create({
        :file => attachment, :description => email.subject
      })
    end
  end
end

end

what does this line do…

def receive(email)
page = Page.find_by_address(email.to.first)
page.emails.create(
:subject => email.subject, :body => email.body
)

Look like it can’t work at all

2

On 29 May 2008, at 10:05, Emmie W. wrote:

what does this line do…

def receive(email)
page = Page.find_by_address(email.to.first)
page.emails.create(
:subject => email.subject, :body => email.body
)

Which part isn’t working? if Page. find_by_address is returning nil,
have you compared what’s in the database with what’s in the email
(bearing in the mind that the email will probably have something like
“Fred blogs [email protected]” whereas your database might only have
[email protected]
.

Fred

3

receive is a class method in ActionMailer::Base that processes
incoming mail. What you usually do is pipe contents of the email, as a
string, from your mailing process to the receive method which
automatically converts it to a Tmail object.

This is the example for Rails Way (modified slightly to match your
class name) to listen for incoming mail:

./script/runner ‘Mailman.receive(STDIN.read)’

4

Actually these code is not working

if email.has_attachments?
for attachment in email.attachments
page.attachments.create({
:file => attachment, :description => email.subject
})
end

So i change the code to

if email.has_attachments?
email.attachments.each do |attachment|
# save original file
File.open(“C:/rubydev1/mail7/log/” +
base_part_of(attachment.original_filename)
,File::CREAT|File::TRUNC|File::WRONLY,0666){ |f|
f.write(attachment.read)
f.close()
}
end
end

And these code work fine, it did help me read the attachment file and
save it into the ruby directory. Then now i want to retrieve hte email
header such as the receiver, the senter, subject and date. It is
possible. Thanks