Rails - Mar 2006 - How do I use ''reply-to'' with Action Mailer

Hey there folks, I''m sure there is a stupidly easy answer for this, but
I can''t seem to find it. I''m building a site and I want a way
for one
user to contact another. Simple enough. The problem lies in the fact I 
want the email to ''come from'' the user, and not from my
system.

In my ActionMailer class if I do the following:
@from = "#{from_user.display_name} <notifier@mydomain.com>"

it works just fine. But I really want is:
@from = "#{from_user.display_name} <bob@bobsdomain.com>"

If I do that though, the email never gets delivered.

So I guess my question is can someone tell me how to make this work 
correctly? Of if I can''t get this to work, is there a way to set a 
''reply-to'' address so that when the user clicks reply in their
email it
goes to ''bob@bobsdomain.com'' and not to my notifier address?

Thanks in advance for the help.

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Hi Mark

You should be able to send the email using the second option you 
described. Probably, the email server you''re using is setup to only
send
emails from your domain, check the server logs to see why the email is 
not delivered.

You can set the reply-to header like this:
@headers[''Reply-to''] = from_user.reply_address

Cheers,

Cloves Carneiro Jr
http://www.ccjr.name

Mark Bates wrote:
> Hey there folks, I''m sure there is a stupidly easy answer for
this, but
> I can''t seem to find it. I''m building a site and I want a
way for one
> user to contact another. Simple enough. The problem lies in the fact I 
> want the email to ''come from'' the user, and not from my
system.
> 
> In my ActionMailer class if I do the following:
> @from = "#{from_user.display_name} <notifier@mydomain.com>"
> 
> it works just fine. But I really want is:
> @from = "#{from_user.display_name} <bob@bobsdomain.com>"
> 
> If I do that though, the email never gets delivered.
> 
> So I guess my question is can someone tell me how to make this work 
> correctly? Of if I can''t get this to work, is there a way to set a
> ''reply-to'' address so that when the user clicks reply in
their email it
> goes to ''bob@bobsdomain.com'' and not to my notifier
address?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help.
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Thanks Cloves. That was exactly what I was looking for.
-Mark

Cloves Carneiro Jr wrote:
> Hi Mark
> 
> You should be able to send the email using the second option you 
> described. Probably, the email server you''re using is setup to
only send
> emails from your domain, check the server logs to see why the email is 
> not delivered.
> 
> You can set the reply-to header like this:
> @headers[''Reply-to''] = from_user.reply_address
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cloves Carneiro Jr
> http://www.ccjr.name
> 
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