ActionMailer or alternatives in Rails 2.X

rubyonrails-talk
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I am developing in Rails 2.X (I forget the latest release!)

Anyway. I need to incorporate email capability to my app. Is actionmailer the way to go or is there a plugin that is better. It seems quite easy and straightforward. I have already created some simple functionality with actionmailer.

Another question...

Everything seems to work fine but no emails are actually sent from development mode... How can I get it to actually send the emails? I just want to see that it is working right. Do I need to install a smpt server? Using Webrick.

I would hate to have to wait for deployment to get it actually running... check that it works...

Thanks!

Shawn

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Everything seems to work fine but no emails are actually sent from development mode... How can I get it to actually send the emails? I just want to see that it is working right. Do I need to install a smpt server? Using Webrick.

You'll need to point it at an smtp server for emails to actually get sent, or install sendmail and configure your app to use that

Fred

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Is that done just in environment.rb?