Any plugin to send email asyncronously in the background

We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out & write our own.

aj

delayed_job [0] is a nice plugin to do things in the background.

  mx.

[0] http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master

We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out & write our own.

ar_mailer does something like this.

Fred

You can also take a look at this episode of Railscasts: #129 Custom Daemon - RailsCasts Making your own daemon to run in the background is surprisingly easy.

I used Spawn (http://blog.sidu.in/2008/06/spawn-reliable-background- processing.html) _really_ easy to setup. Don't expect any great control though.

Ajaya Agrawalla wrote:

We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out & write our own.

aj

thank you all for your suggestions. Instead of creating another queuing solution for email, i went back to default sendmail to send email & configured sendmail to use an external authenticated SMTP server to relay the email.

http://www.phinesolutions.com/sendmail-gmail-smtp-relay-howto.html

Thanks

AJ