Sidemail::Delivery

A Rails delivery method that uses the Sidemail transactional API for sending outgoing mail.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "sidemail-delivery"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Create an initializer in config/initializers/sidemail_delivery.rb to configure your Sidemail API key:

Sidemail::Delivery.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"
end

Now set your delivery method for your preferred environment, for example in config/environments/production.rb:

Rails.application.configure do
  # ...
  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sidemail
  # ...
end

After the installation your existing mailers will automatically send their html/text views through Sidemail. You might need to contact Sidemail support to enable HTML sending through their API. They disable it by default to prevent abuse.

If you want to use templates you can modify your mailers to include the template name and properties in the mail call and pass an empty body to avoid the need for having a mailer view. For example:

mail(to: "somebody@example.com", template: "my-template-name", template_props: { name: "Somebody" }, body: "")

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.