action mailer settings and dkim signing

rubyonrails-talk
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I am trying to figure out why this block of code in my environments/production.rb file is causing the dkim signing to break. I have email being sent from a rake task with my UserMailer class. It is derived from Devise::Mailer. If I have the action_mailer configuration block within the “config.after_initialize” the dkim signature does not go through. If I don’t have that line “after_initialize” the signature goes through. Can someone shed some light on this for me?

Here’s the code for my UserMailer class and the production.rb file.

user_mailer.rb

require “#{Rails.root}/app/helpers/user_helper” include UserHelper

class UserMailer < Devise::Mailer helper :application # gives access to all helpers defined within application_helper. include Devise::Controllers::UrlHelpers # Optional. eg. confirmation_url default from: “Save The Sparkles contact@savethesparkles.com”, reply_to: “contact@savethesparkles.com” … end

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environments/production.rb

config.action_mailer.asset_host = ‘http://savethesparkles.com’

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: ‘savethesparkles.com’ } config.after_initialize do config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { address: ‘email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com’, port: 587, domain: ‘savethesparkles.com’, user_name: ENV[‘AWS_SES_USER’], password: ENV[‘AWS_SES_PASS’], authentication: :login, enable_starttls_auto: true } end

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The documentation for Rails::Railtie::Configuration describes after_initialize as the “last configurable block to run, called after frameworks initialize”. ActionMailer’s own initialization routine copies the values from config.action_mailer before the code above sets them. So the behavior you’ve described makes sense.

A better question is, why is having after_initialize here important? What’s the intent?

–Matt Jones