[PLUG-Devel] rails and sending email

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Sep 18 22:16:47 MST 2007


edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

change from
dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.your.provider')dnl

to
define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.west.cox.net')dnl

then (as root)

/sbin/service sendmail restart
/sbin/chkconfig sendmail on

Craig

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:07 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> Ok, I'm not sure whether it matters, but I'm trying to send mail to a
> non-local address. the one i'm writing from for instance.
> Anyway, I think I still have some work to do with sendmail. Because I
> use cox, I think I have to setup sendmail as a relay to the cox mail
> server. 
> 
> I'll post any progress. tips are appreciated.
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> On 9/18/07, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         mail --help
>         
>         mail craig -s "This is a subject" < /home/craig/some_file.txt 
>         
>         Craig
>         
>         PS action mailer is pretty simple and you can use an smtp
>         server so
>         local smtp is unnecessary
>         
>         On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:15 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
>         > sendmail wasn't started...
>         > anyone know how to send email via command line/script on
>         fedora?
>         > I'd like to test that the mail server works, before assuming
>         its my
>         > rails app.
>         >
>         > thanks,
>         > -j
>         >
>         >
>         > On 9/18/07, Derek Neighbors <derek at gnue.org> wrote:
>         >         Come to rails meeting tonight and I can help you
>         out.
>         >         ActionMailer
>         >         is way to go. 
>         >
>         >         http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActionMailer
>         >
>         >         --
>         >         Derek
>         >
>         >         On 9/18/07, Josh Coffman < joshcoffman at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
>         >         > Hi all,
>         >         >
>         >         >    Anyone know how to send email from rails on
>         linux? I've
>         >         tried a couple 
>         >         > articles I found via google, but no luck so far. I
>         may be
>         >         missing something
>         >         > on linux, like a running mail daemon or something.
>         If you've
>         >         setup rails to 
>         >         > send email on linux, please tell me how.
>         >         >
>         >         >
>         >         > Thanks,
>         >         > -j
>         >         >
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