simple_postmark

simple_postmark makes it easy to send mails via Postmark™ using Rails's ActionMailer.

• About
• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• Testing
• Contributing
• Copyright

simple_postmark was created because of the lack of the proper Rails API support in the official postmark-gem. This was back in 2011, the postmark-gem was updated to support the Rails API since then. I recently decided to deprecate this gem in favor of the official gem. However, this gem will continue to support all Rails versions until 5.0.

Tested against Ruby version >= 1.9.3 up to =< 2.2.0 and Rails versions ~> 3.0.0 up to ~> 4.1.0.

In your Gemfile:

group :production do
  gem 'simple_postmark'
end

In your config/environments/production.rb:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :simple_postmark
config.action_mailer.simple_postmark_settings = { api_key: '********-****-****-****-************' }

Just use your standard Rails Mailer:

class NotificationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def notification
    mail(to: 'ted@himym.tld', from: 'barney@himym.tld', subject: "I'm your bro!") do
      # ...
    end
  end
end

And of course you can use standard attachment calls and Postmark's tags:

class NotificationMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def notification
    attachments['thebrocode.pdf'] = File.read('thebrocode.pdf')

    mail(to: 'ted@himym.tld', from: 'barney@himym.tld', subject: "I'm your bro!", tag: 'with-attachment') do
      # ...
    end
  end
end

• api_key: Your Postmark API key. Go to your Rack, selected the one you want to use and then go to the Credentials tab to find your API key.

• return_response: In order to receive the response from the Postmark API – for example, if you want to store ErrorCode or MessageID - set it to true. (Mail which is the base of simple_postmark expects this option.)

Example how the ErrorCode, MessageID and other values can be received from Postmark:

# config/environments/production.rb
config.action_mailer.simple_postmark_settings = { api_key: '********-****-****-****-************', return_response: true }

# your_mailer.rb
response = YourMailer.email.deliver!.parsed_response

response['MessageID']
  # => "b7bc2f4a-e38e-4336-af7d-e6c392c2f817"
response['ErrorCode']
  # => 0

Testing simple_postmark is, well, simple. ;)

# config/environments/test.rb
config.action_mailer.simple_postmark_settings = { api_key: 'POSTMARK_API_TEST', return_response: true }

With this setup, it will actually trigger a connection to the Postmark API, but Postmark will never send any emails and nothing will be delivered to your recipients.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

(The MIT license)

Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Mario Uher

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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