ActionMailer

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Hi,

I am planning to write an internal messaging system for my users. Should I be using Actionmailer ? I am not interested in using any plugin or 3rd party sw as I want to learn some ror.

Is actionmailer used mainly for feedback and sending general emails.

I am a new to rails so any suggestions and ideas are welcome.

Warm Regards

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Hi,

I am planning to write an internal messaging system for my users. Should I be using Actionmailer ? I am not interested in using any plugin or 3rd party sw as I want to learn some ror.

Is actionmailer used mainly for feedback and sending general emails.

I am a new to rails so any suggestions and ideas are welcome.

ActionMailer is a class which encapsulates the creation of mail messages (in various formats) from ActiveModel instances using ActionView templates and delivering those messages. It is roughly analogous to ActionController in a Web application, but specialized around the e-mail format. It is a very general purpose tool, suitable for use in building more specialized systems as you need.

Walter

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Hi Walter,

Thanks for your input. Since I want a messaging system which will not send messages outside, will it be helpful to use ActionMailer or just write my own set of classes.

Regards

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Hi Walter,

Thanks for your input. Since I want a messaging system which will not send messages outside, will it be helpful to use ActionMailer or just write my own set of classes.

If you're not actually delivering e-mail using the Internet Mail protocols, then you don't need to use ActionMailer. Are you referring to a "private message" system on a Web site, where one member can send a note to another member? That's not mail, and the only interaction such a system would have with actual Cap-M-Mail would be if you design in a "ping" system that sends an alert through mail to the recipient, alerting them to a new message. And for that, yes, you would use ActionMailer to compose and deliver the ping message.

Walter

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If the messages are to remain inside your application and this is a learning exercise, then I suggest writing your own system.

If you later need to send messages externally via SMTP (a 'copy me' function, for example), then you could use ActionMailer with your existing system.

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Hi Walter,

Thank you very much. Is there any tutorial for “rails generate mailer”

Regards