ActionMailer Attach Original Message

Rails
1

I have a mailer setup to receive messages for processing data. If the
message sent is not correct then I send back an email telling the user
of their problem. I want to attach the original message and I have it
sort of working, but if the original message has an attachment that
attachment doesn’t seem to display in my Email client (Thunderbird).
Here is what I have:

def invalid_email(error, email)
recipients email.from
from email.to
subject ‘Data Import Failed!’
body :error => error
part :body => email.to_s, :content_type => ‘message/rfc822’
end

In this method “error” is some error message (a string) and email is the
TMail object that came in from the receive method.

Any ideas?

Eric

2

Eric,

I’m doing the same thing in one of my apps, but we opted not to use
ActionMailer in order to preserve the contents. Instead, we jut use
Net::SMTP to send it directly. Below is what I’m using using; for
clarity, I omitted exception handling code that surrounds the
Net::SMTP block:

require ‘net/smtp’

smtp_settings = ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings

Net::SMTP.start(smtp_settings[:address], smtp_settings[:port],
smtp_settings[:domain], smtp_settings[:user_name],
smtp_settings[:password], smtp_settings[:authentication]) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message(raw, FROM_ADDRESS, to_address)
end

-Mike Subelsky
Baltimore, MD