How do I send emails with mandrill?

[hakunin]

Howdy, maybe I overlooked something, but I don't see how to end emails and configure rails app with mandrill.

[tardate]

Hi there.

Sending email is not something that mandrill-rails handles specifically, since it is already catered for. Two options:

• if you have special requirements, you can use the mandrill API (using one of the mandrill api gems)

• but normally, you just need to configure ActionMailer to send via the Mandrill SMTP gateway, e.g.:

  # ActionMailer Config
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address              => "smtp.mandrillapp.com",
  :port                 => 587,
  :domain               => 'mydomain.com',
  :user_name            => 'hello@mydomain.com',
  :password             => 'your mandrill password',
  :authentication       => 'plain',
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
  }

[hakunin]

Thats so simple that I completely overlooked it. Was expecting to go through an API or something.

Thanks!

[tardate]

no probs!