setting email headers so gmail formats email correctly

rubyonrails-talk
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      @body['sender'] = sender

I doubt that is going to work like you want it to. "Sender:" is a fairly magical header that's used by MTAs to let MUAs know which envelope sender was used, so depending on the exact details of your mail setup that line may work as you intend, be deceptive or be overwritten.

For my own application, I wrote a tiny plugin that monkeypatches ActionMailer to allow setting the sender as it should be (in the SMTP dialog for :smtp, with -f for :sendmail). I don't have a public svn server to easily publish it from, but I could post it here, I guess. If there's interest.

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Duh. Of course. I blame lack of caffeine.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in the plugin to set the real sender, it's on http://rubyforge.org/projects/amsenderplugin/ now.

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Rails Recipes has a recipe for exactly this case. Here's a snippet that can help you along the way:

def multipart_alternative(recipient, name, sent_at = Time.now)   ...   content_type "multipart/alternative"   part :content_type => "text/plain",     :body => render_message("multipart_alternative_plain", :name => name)

  part :content_type => "text/html",     :body => render_message("multipart_alternative", :name => name) end

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It's all in the anonymous SVN repo for the project: svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/amsenderplugin