Delayed Jobs and Action Mailer

Question

I am having trouble with implementing delayed jobs with my ActionMailer: Before Delayed Job Implementation:

class NotificationsMailer < ActionMailer::Base

  default :from => "noreply@mycompany.com"
  default :to => "info@mycompany.com"

  def new_message(message)
    @message = message
    mail(:subject => "[Company Notification] #{message.subject}")
  end

end

and called it using this line (it worked perfectly fine):

NotificationsMailer.new_message(@message).deliver

---

After the Delayed Job implementation all i did was change the deliver line to:

NotificationsMailer.delay.new_message(@message)

In addition, I started the jobs queue using

rake jobs:work

I can see the objects in the database if the job is closed and i can see they get popped after i start the worker but nothing happens (no email sent).

Update - Other Delayed Tasks (not related to mail) are working fine.

Can anyone help a newbie?

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

The first place I would look is the smtp settings in your environments, check to make sure that is correct:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "gmail.com",
:authentication => 'plain',
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
:user_name => "youremail@gmail.com",
:password => "yourpassword"
}
config.action_mailer.default_charset = "utf-8"
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true

I use an old ruby, 1.8.7 and rails 2.3.8, so check to make sure the syntax is correct as well.