dynamically changing ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi all,

I need some of my emails to go out using "smtp" and some others using "sendmail" . Is there a clean way to switch between these two deliver methods depending upon the mailer method?

Thanks!

2

maybe with a rake task for the send mail one, running with deamon but it will have to load your app and change the config, i think it will get ugly.

3

I think (but do test this!) that you could do something like

class SmtpMailer < AM::Base   self.delivery_method = :smtp end

class SendmailMailer < AM::Base   self.delivery_method = :sendmail end

and then derive mailers from those two classes as appropriate. If you have identical mail that needs to be delivered via either of those two mechanisms then it might be a bit more complicated.

Fred