Cesy

For prod, https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/trustifi is free but slightly more complicated to set up, as it doesn't integrate with ActionMailer and you have to use their API instead. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/mailertogo#using-with-ruby is $9 a...

Next thing to try: Mailgun free for staging, Mailertogo $9 for prod, minimum effort and cost combination.

@Konstrukteur no further news beyond what you can see above, I'm afraid. If you would be up for adding some error handling so that if emails aren't working, it captures...

Having merged mailgun for staging, it now gives error 400 instead of 500 when trying to request a new crop on my first attempt, and succeeds on my second attempt....

We'll continue to use mailgun for staging where we only need our whitelisted email addresses to receive, as that's working. For prod, I've backed up the mailgun config vars since...

It appears the DNS problem was I was mixing up which bits we have with which host (domain name vs DNS). Having actually updated our DNS with the right provider...

Yes, I agree, I think this is done enough for our current level of confidence.

Feel free to grab bits from my draft at https://github.com/cesy/growstuff/tree/issue468deletion to reuse in this.

It looks like the Paperclip gem will be a good place to start for this.

Realistically we want to get the rest of Release 9 live without waiting for this.