I'm wondering if anyone here has worked on an app that involved sending lots of emails (1000+ emails per hour) from inside the rails app. Did you use sendmail, an smtp server or a specialized service?
I'm wondering if anyone here has worked on an app that involved sending lots of emails (1000+ emails per hour) from inside the rails app. Did you use sendmail, an smtp server or a specialized service?
We don't send lots of emails continuously, but we do have a daily
'fact of the day' which we send out to a fair number of subscribers,
via a cronjob that talks to sendmail.
Fred
Fredrick, Do you use the action_mailer feature of rails to send off the emails or something?
yes.
I'd suggest considering a service such as authsmtp.com. If you're generating lots of emails, it is hard work to stay off the blacklists and keep your messages from being blocked as spam.
I use sendmail for some low-volume mail sending but would use authsmtp or something similar if volume was higher.
Michael
Michael & Fred,
Thanks for your feedback. I think the way I'll do it is run sendmail until it starts hitting 100 emails per hour and then switch out to authsmtp.