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| author | Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@gmail.com> | 2010-04-20 14:45:30 +1000 |
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| committer | Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@gmail.com> | 2010-04-20 14:45:30 +1000 |
| commit | a9d05787116db2597237b34a048abe62d252b304 (patch) | |
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Adding auto encoding of headers and bodies to the guide for ActionMailer
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile b/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile index 79cb86ee97..794dc74900 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/action_mailer_basics.textile @@ -148,6 +148,14 @@ NOTE: In previous versions of Rails, you would call +deliver_welcome_email+ or + WARNING: Sending out one email should only take a fraction of a second, if you are planning on sending out many emails, or you have a slow domain resolution service, you might want to investigate using a background process like delayed job. +h4. Auto encoding header values + +ActionMailer now handles the auto encoding of multibyte characters inside of headers and bodies. + +If you are using UTF-8 as your character set, you do not have to do anything special, just go ahead and send in UTF-8 data to the address fields, subject, keywords, filenames or body of the email and ActionMailer will auto encode it into quoted printable for you in the case of a header field or Base64 encode any body parts that are non US-ASCII. + +For more complex examples, such as defining alternate character sets or self encoding text first, please refer to the Mail library. + h4. Complete List of Action Mailer Methods There are just three methods that you need to send pretty much any email message: |