Adding SendGrid addon on Heroku uses Basic Authentication with Username and Password

[vfonic]

I know this is not the most relevant place to submit this issue, but I got lost trying to find a contact on your website. Now you can close this issue and wait for this to start failing or you can forward it to the right place through your internal channels.
Thank you!

Issue Summary

The Basic Authentication with Username and Password is deprecated and will most likely stop working on January 20th.

However, SendGrid addon on Heroku still uses Basic Authentication. This will cause issues for anyone who tries to add SendGrid addon and use it on Heroku. Developers will have to manually switch from Basic Auth to API key auth.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create new app on heroku
2. Add SendGrid addon
3. Check environment variables created by SendGrid addon

Actual:

The environment variables created are:

SENDGRID_PASSWORD: 'xxx'
SENDGRID_USERNAME: [email protected]

Expected:

I'd expect something of the kind:

SENDGRID_PASSWORD: 'xxx'
SENDGRID_USERNAME: apikey

or

SENDGRID_API_KEY: 'xxx'

...and update heroku documentation.

Related links

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/sendgrid#actionmailer
https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/upgrade-your-authentication-method-to-api-keys

[thinkingserious]

Hello @vfonic,

Thank you for taking the time to report this. I have forwarded this information to the appropriate team internally. Thanks again!

With best regards,

Elmer

[vfonic]

Thank you, Elmer! 🤘

[vfonic]

Well, that doesn't seem like it worked. :/

As of this morning SendGrid plugin is not able to authenticate. I've switched to API authentication manually.

Basically, the SendGrid Heroku addon doesn't work out of the box. The ENV variables that are added to the app are old username/password combination that no longer works.

You guys should work on your internal and external communication. This is the second time in couple of months that I've had negative experience trying to reach out to someone at SendGrid. The first time I couldn't get an answer and so I switched my client to another service. This time the feeling tells me I should switch to more reliable service as well.

[Petercopter]

This still appears to be a problem :\