Using Amazon SES with Rails ActionMailer

Question

What would be the best way to go about making ActionMailer send mail via Amazon SES in Rails 3?

Edit:

This is now a gem:

gem install amazon-         


        

Answer 1

Configuring your Rails application with Amazon SES

set action_mailer.perform_deliveries to true as it is set to false by default in the development/production environment

config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true

then paste this code in your development/production environment

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address => ENV["SES_SMTP_ADDRESS"],
  :port => 587,
  :user_name => ENV["SES_SMTP_USERNAME"], 
  :password => ENV["SES_SMTP_PASSWORD"],
  :authentication => :login,
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
}