ActionMailer: Default From: address?

Question

Googled for this to no avail. Didn\'t find anything in the API either. I was expecting some kind of class method or configuration option to set it...

So, rather than

Answer 1

I went with the monkey-patching method that KandadaBoggu suggested. However, it does not work quite right in Rails 2.3.8; you can't override the default. This works, however:

def from_with_default(input=nil)
  return instance_variable_set("@from", input) unless input.nil?
  from_without_default || FROM_EMAIL
end
alias_method_chain :from, :default