I'm a beginning programmer, and I have just implemented Mailboxer in my Ruby on Rails 4 web app. Everything is working great, but I want to have the recipients be the user's names, not their emails. I've searched for hours and can't find a precise answer. Here is my code, though it's pretty much exactly what the documentation instructs to do.
config/initializers/mailboxer.rb
Mailboxer.setup do |config|
#Configures if you application uses or not email sending for Notifications and Messages
config.uses_emails = true
#Configures the default from for emails sent for Messages and Notifications
config.default_from = "[email protected]"
#Configures the methods needed by mailboxer
config.email_method = :mailboxer_email
config.name_method = :name
#Configures if you use or not a search engine and which one you are using
#Supported engines: [:solr,:sphinx]
config.search_enabled = false
config.search_engine = :solr
#Configures maximum length of the message subject and body
config.subject_max_length = 255
config.body_max_length = 32000
end
app/models/user.rb
acts_as_messageable
...
def name
email
end
def mailboxer_email(object)
email
end
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've tried playing around with the code but I just can't quite get to the right combination of tweaks. Thank you so much!
This is basically a feature of the receiving mail user agent, which takes a mail header
To: somebody <[email protected]>
and displays only "somebody". One way to build that header should be
def mailboxer_email(object)
"#{name} <#{email}>"
end
if the variable name contains the username you want the mail user agent to display.