Sending thousands of email with ar_mailer

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Hi,

to send an email with ar_mailer I need to generate it and save it to the db, right?

Currently the code looks very simple: Newsletter.recepients.each do |recepient|   NewsletterMailer.deliver_dedicated(request, recepient, newsletter) end

But for i.e. 30000 receivers it's going to take a long while anyway. Should I create them somehow in the background using BackgrounDRb or something similar? If I should, then I could get rid of the ar_mailer and just send all emails in the background... The only advantage of ar_mailer in this case would be the functionality to send emails in batches.

Any thoughts?

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The use of backgroundrb is to divorse the long running the tasks from controllers.

if you use ar_mailer you rails app will be overloaded. So its better to go with backgroundrb.

Cheers, Ratnavel.