Set the Message-ID mail header in Rails3 / ActionMailer

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Teddy picture Teddy · Jul 6, 2011 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I would like to alter the Message-ID header that is in the header portion of an email sent from a Ruby on Rails v3 application using ActionMailer.

I am using Sendmail on localhost for mail delivery.

Do I configure this in Sendmail or ActionMailer?

Where do I configure this (if it is ActionMailer): a file in config/ folder or a file in app/mailers/ folder?

Answer

jasoncrawford picture jasoncrawford · Apr 19, 2013

Teddy's answer is good, except that if you actually want each message to have a different ID, you need to make the default a lambda. In the first block of code in his answer, it calculates the message-ID once, at init, and uses the same one for every message.

Here's how I'm doing this in my app:

default "Message-ID" => lambda {"<#{SecureRandom.uuid}@#{Rails.application.config.mailgun_domain}>"}

... with the domain taken from a custom app config variable (and using SecureRandom.uuid, which is a little more straightforward than a SHA-2 based on the timestamp IMO.)

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