How to make a reply address with TMail

November 17th, 2007

TMail is quite an extensive mailing library that is suffering from incredibly documentation pains.

The easy stuff is simple, like @mail.to gives you the to address of the email, and @mail.to=”something” sets the to address to something.

But there are some other things that TMail can do to make your life simple and easy and I am going to document them here on this blog.

Recently there was a bug request 15445 on the create_forward function.

I have fixed this bug and closed the ticket and merged the changes back into trunk of TMail.

But what this means now is that you can do the following:

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mail = TMail::Mail.load("/path/to/my_email_message")
forwarded_email = @mail.create_forward
forwarded_email.to = "New address <me@me.com>"
text = "Dear me\n\nHere is that email I was talking about!\n"
forwarded_email.body = text

And then you can just send the forwarded_email.

“create_forward” nicely takes the existing email, encodes it into 7-bit ASCII, and the inserts it as an attachment to a new email which it returns to you… Handy :)

“create_forward” is an existing method that has been moved into the main interface.rb file of TMail which means that it will be available to any mail object with a simple require ‘tmail’ in your ruby or rails code.

Hope you enjoy it!

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Mikel

Posted by mikel Filed in Ruby on Rails, TMail

2 Responses to “How to make a reply address with TMail”

  1. Charles Says:
    November 18th, 2007 at 12:01 AM

    Great to see tmail become actively maintained again! (and by a fellow aussie no less :)

    I’ve been wanting to ditch the half-assed email code in my ruby-msg project, for something a bit more standards compliant…

    Thanks!

  2. Mikel Says:
    November 18th, 2007 at 12:43 AM

    @Charles

    Thanks :)

    I plan to put more up here about TMail as I discover more and more, Minero Aoki definately did a good job with the library.

    If you have any problems, let me know.

    Mikel

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