Programatically send emails using a given gmail account. No username/passwords needed, just use your OAUTH credentials

Information

This has only been tested on ruby 1.9.2

Usage

Creating a message

message = GmailMailer::Message.new("to", "Hello Subject", "Hello Body")

Adding attachments

message.add_attachment("<path-to-file>")

Setting up gmail-mailer

You will need to provide mailer with a hashmap containing the ouath details for your account. email_credentials = { :smtp_oauth_token=>“<your outh_token>”, :smtp_oauth_token_secret=>“<your ouath token secret>”, :email=>“<your gmail address>” }

Sending a message

mailer.send(message)

Example application

require 'gmail-mailer'
email_credentials = 
{
    :smtp_oauth_token=>"<your outh_token>",
    :smtp_oauth_token_secret=>"<your ouath token secret>", 
    :email=>"<your gmail address>"
}

# construct message
message = GmailMailer::Message.new("to", "Hello Subject", "Hello Body")

# add an attachment to the message
message.add_attachment(File.expand_path('~/image.png'))

# construct mailer using the email_credentials defined above
mailer = GmailMailer::Mailer.new(email_credentials)

# send email
mailer.send(message)

Contributing to gmail-mailer

Copyright © 2011 Daniel Harper. See LICENSE.txt for further details.