Nathan Colgate - Dealing with Exception Notifier and Rails 2.3.3

This is the personal blog of Nathan Colgate Clark. I work at Brand New Box. I developed a content management system for churches.

Dealing with Exception Notifier and Rails 2.3.3

I installed Exception Notifier on one of our Apps running Rails 2.3.3 and kept running into this error:

Net::SMTPFatalError (555 5.5.2 Syntax error..

A little bit of insight provided this heads up:

But as of Rails 2.3.3, the from email address will get the angle brackets added, so it can only contain the address.

Rails 2.3.4 is/was supposed to fix that, and includes tests so it will be ensured in future versions.

A quick look at the Exception Notifier README and I tried this:

ExceptionNotifier.sender_address = %("app.error@myapp.com)

Success!