Mail Magnet¶ ↑

Mail Magnet allows you to override e-mail recipients in ActionMailer so all mails go to a given address. This is useful for staging environments where you want to test production-like mail delivery without sending e-mails to real users.

Install the gem with

sudo gem install mail_magnet

In the environment for which you’d like to override mail recipients:

config.gem 'mail_magnet'
config.after_initialize { ActionMailer::Base.override_recipients = 'overridden@example.com' }

Now all e-mail sent by your ActionMailers goes to ‘overridden@example.com’ (including CC and BCC recipients). The original recipients will be quoted inside the mail body, like this:

- - - Original recipients - - -
To: original.to@example.com
Cc: original.cc@example.com
Bcc: original.bcc@example.com
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Original e-mail body goes here.

We cannot guarantee Rails 3 compatibility at this point, but we will upgrade the gem when Rails 3 is released.

Arne Hartherz

makandra.com

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