Postmark Rails Gem

Postmark allows you to send your emails with high delivery rates. It also includes detailed statistics. In addition, Postmark can parse incoming emails which are forwarded back to your application.

The Postmark Rails Gem is a drop-in plug-in for ActionMailer to send emails via Postmark. The gem has been created for fast implementation and fully supports all of Postmark’s features.

Usage

Please see the wiki for detailed instructions about library features. For details about Postmark API in general, please check out Postmark developer docs.

Requirements

You will need a Postmark account, server and sender signature (or verified domain) set up to use it. For details about setup, check out wiki pages.

Also you will need a postmark gem version 1.0 and higher is required.

Supported Rails Versions

Rails 7.0
Rails 6.0
Rails 5.0
Rails 4.x
Rails 3.x

For Rails 2.3 please take a look at version 0.4. It may miss some new features, but receives all required bug fixes and other support if needed.

Installation

Add postmark-rails to your Gemfile and run bundle install.

gem 'postmark-rails'

Rails 6-7

Save your Postmark Server API Token to config/credentials.yml.enc:

run rails secret, then run rails credentials:edit and add:

postmark_api_token: "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"

Set Postmark as your preferred mail delivery method via config/application.rb:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :postmark
config.action_mailer.postmark_settings = { api_token: Rails.application.credentials.postmark_api_token }

Rails 3-5

Save your Postmark Server API token to config/secrets.yml.

postmark_api_token: "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"

Set Postmark as your preferred mail delivery method via config/application.rb:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :postmark
config.action_mailer.postmark_settings = { :api_token => Rails.application.secrets.postmark_api_token }

Note: The postmark_settings hash can contain any options supported by Postmark::ApiClient.

Additional information

Looking for the advanced usage examples? Check out the documentation for the postmark gem. The postmark-rails gem is built on top of it, so you can benefit from all it's features.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

See CONTRIBUTING.md file for details.

Authors & Contributors

Artem Chistyakov
Petyo Ivanov
Ilya Sabanin
Hristo Deshev
Randy Schmidt
Chris Williams
Nicolás Sanguinetti
Laust Rud Jacobsen (rud)

Issues & Comments

Feel free to contact us if you encounter any issues with the library or Postmark API. Please leave all comments, bugs, requests and issues on the Issues page.

License

The Postmark Rails gem is licensed under the MIT license. Refer to the LICENSE file for more information.