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ruby-on-rails-3email
Jay
Jay

Reputation: 6244

How to pick up header info (e.g. subject) from an email received via an HTTP Post

I am using CloudMailin in an attempt to upload profile pics to a mobile device web site via email. Using their documentation I have...

incoming_mails_controller.rb:

  def create
    ...
    user_id = params[:headers][:subject] # line 13
    ...
  end

The error I am getting:

NoMethodError (undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass):
  app/controllers/incoming_mails_controller.rb:13:in `create'

The relevant portion of the log:

Apple-Mail=_...\r\n", "x_references"=>"[email protected]", "x_cc_header"=>"", "subject"=>"Smith, Joe"}

Rummaged around the web for a solution and didn't find a solution. Thanks for your help.

Update:

Placed the following in the controller:

::Rails.logger.info "PARAMS INSPECT: " + params.inspect

The following is only a very small portion of what it yielded:

PARAMS INSPECT: {"message"=>"Received: by ... :content-type:subject:date:message-id:to:mime-version:x-mailer\r\n...
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"Apple-Mail=_..."\r\n
Subject: Smith, John\r\n ...
"return_path"=>"[email protected]", 
"x_from_header"=>"[\"[email protected]\"]", ...
"subject"=>"Smith, John"

Upvotes: 2

Views: 138

Answers (1)

MrTheWalrus
MrTheWalrus

Reputation: 9700

It's hard to be certain of the exact structure of the params hash and any sub-hashes without the full (presumably long) print out of params, but it looks as though there's a parameter for each header, including a 'subject' parameter (params[:subject], probably?). Is that what you needed?

Upvotes: 2

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