Creating a separate Email configuration for exception_notification about exception_notification

[smartinez87]

As the README says, you should be able to put this in your production.rb environment file:

Whatever::Application.config.middleware.use ExceptionNotifier,
  :email_prefix => "[Whatever] ",
  :sender_address => %{"notifier" <[email protected]>},
  :exception_recipients => %w{[email protected]}

and it's supposed to grab the sender address from there.
Let me know if that works!

[smaboshe]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I am using the instructions in the README, I could have been clearer.

I have regular mail being sent from "hello@domain" and would like to send exceptions from "exceptions@domain". ExceptionNotifier is configured as described. It gets set up in an initialiser so that all environments use it. In development, I am using Ryan Bates' letter_opener to see what the messages look like.

In development, what the README describes is what happens:

1. Regular mail is sent from hello@domain
2. Exceptions are sent from exceptions@domain

In production, however, both regular email and exceptions are being sent from hello@domain.

Since I need to authenticate to send emails, what seems to be happening is that even for exceptions, the account being authenticated and used is hello@domain. Is there a way to provide separate authentication details for the :sender_address?

In short, it works but not quite the way I'd prefer it to in production.

[smartinez87]

can you try moving that set up to the production.rb env file and let me know if the problem persists?

[smaboshe]

Yes, the problem persists even after moving the configuration to the production.rb environment file.

[smartinez87]

I tested on some example apps and it works as expected.
Can you provide a failing test case for this? I am not being able to reproduce your error.

[smartinez87]

@smaboshe did you have any luck creating a failing test case for this?

[mcr]

It would be nice to have a method, "send_sample_notification()" that I could invoke from the rails console to validate my MTA settings are correct...

[jweslley]

@mcr , try to use background notifications for this purporse. more info here: https://github.com/smartinez87/exception_notification/tree/v3.0.1#background-notifications

[smartinez87]

@mcr did using background notifications fixed your issue?

[jweslley]

@smaboshe Now is possible to use custom mailer settings for using Exception notification in v4.0.0. Usage:

Whatever::Application.config.middleware.use ExceptionNotification::Rack,
  :email => {
    :email_prefix         => "[Whatever] ",
    :sender_address       => %{"notifier" <[email protected]>},
    :exception_recipients => %w{[email protected]},
    :delivery_method => :postmark,
    :postmark_settings => {
      :api_key => ENV["POSTMARK_API_KEY"]
    }
  }

For more information, checkout the README file.