Friday, 9 March 2012

Setting up Sendgrid mail for Spree on Heroku

The free mailing functionality for Heroku is provided by Sendgrid.net, and allows your site to send up to 200 emails a day for no charge. Just perfect for my new low-traffic Spree e-commerce site that I've just built, but I did have some trouble working out to set it up. Here's how I got it working.

Firstly, enable Sendgrid on your Heroku app:
$ heroku addons:add sendgrid:starter
Then, run:
$ heroku config
this will reveal the SENDGRID_PASSWORD and SENDGRID_USERNAME values which you need for the next step:
SENDGRID_PASSWORD   => dju45yhb
SENDGRID_USERNAME   => app37263528@heroku.com
Now go to the Configuration pages in your Spree admin interfaces and add a new mail method. Take a look at this screenshot to see what settings I used:

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1 comment:

  1. Luke Wendling25 April 2013 at 16:42

    Note that you now need to select 'plain' smtp auth type instead of 'login', per sendgrid docs.

    Thanks for this post.

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