you've got at least two choices:
1) send your mail in a background process using backgroundrb (http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/) 2) use ar_mailer (http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/08/15/ar_mailer)
backgroundrb requires you to run a separate backgroundrb process, ar_mailer requires you to set up another database table for queueing the mail, and then running a cron job at a specified interval to send all the queued mail
Mike
Another choice is to use the Ruby Thread. You can read up on it here
http://www.rubycentral.com/pickaxe/ref_c_thread.html
I've had great success using it with all my background processing tasks. I just haven't found a situation where I needed backgroundrb, yet.
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In my case i used the Thread method. In this example i use msmtp, and send my email via GMail.
In environment.rb
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :msmtp
module ActionMailer class Base def perform_delivery_msmtp(mail) thread = Thread.new do IO.popen("/usr/bin/msmtp -t -C /etc/.msmtprc -a gmail --", "w") do >sm> sm.puts(mail.encoded.gsub(/\r/, '')) sm.flush end end thread.run end end end