getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

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Hi there,

If I want to create email within my application (in production), how is this best achieved??

Following the railsspace tutorial, it only really suggests to use :smtp.

I'd read on another site that to generate emails locally, i need to use :sendmail instead... However - I havent seen any decent examples of how to get this configured to be able to send emails within my local area.

Within my email_controller I have the following code:   def remind     @title = "Send me my login information"     if param_posted?(:user)       email = params[:user][:email]       user = User.find_by_email(email)       if user       UserMailer.deliver_reminder(user)       flash[:notice] = "Login information was sent."       redirect_to :action => "index", :controller => "site"       else       flash[:notice] = "There is no user with that email address."       end       end

In environment.rb I have: ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail

and at the top of the same file I have: ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

When I try and enter an email address into the form: I tget an error back:

SocketError in EmailController#remind getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Has anyone else experienced this, and how do you get it up and running? Many Thanks

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In environment.rb I have: ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail

and at the top of the same file I have: ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

When I try and enter an email address into the form: I tget an error back:

SocketError in EmailController#remind getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

That sounds like it's still trying to use smtp (but without a valid smtp server). Did you restart the app after changing this ? With sendmail you just need to tell rails where sendmail is (and even then only if sendmail isn't where rails expects to find it).

Fred