# Actionmailer - how to access request.env **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 3, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-how-to-access-request-env/147600 "2008-09-03T14:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-how-to-access-request-env/147600/1 "2008-09-03T14:57:25Z")
i need to access the host name (and probably the port) inside actionmailer. i need to send a link to something in the public/images directory. in any normal page, i can access this via the request.env variable, but it looks like this variable is not defined in actionmailer… what i would like to do is have it send the correct link via email, no matter what server i run it from (my development machine, the test server, or the production server). so on the my development server, it would spit out: [http://localhost:3000/images/logo.gif](http://localhost:3000/images/logo.gif) on the test server, it would spit out: [http://www](http://www).:3000/images/logo.gif and on the live one, it would spit out: [http://www](http://www)..com/images/logo.gif any ideas? thanks! ---
**Author:** ![spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@spacechurro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/spacechurro)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-how-to-access-request-env/147600/2 "2008-09-03T15:36:04Z")
just in case anyone is running into this same problem, i did a quick and dirty solution on this one… i ended up sending request.host and request.port along with the function call… i know… it’s ugly… but for right now, it works…