Any plugin to send email asyncronously in the background

Rails
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We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the
application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which
will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out &
write our own.

aj

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delayed_job [0] is a nice plugin to do things in the background.

mx.

[0] http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master

On Apr 20, 7:02 pm, Ajaya A. [email protected]

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On Apr 20, 6:02 pm, Ajaya A. [email protected]
wrote:

We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the
application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which
will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out &
write our own.

ar_mailer does something like this.

Fred

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On 20 Apr., 19:02, Ajaya A. [email protected]
wrote:

We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the
application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which
will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out &
write our own.

aj

You can also take a look at this episode of Railscasts:
#129 Custom Daemon - RailsCasts Making your own
daemon to run in the background is surprisingly easy.

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Best regards,
David K.
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Ajaya A. wrote:

We would like to queue our emails and send them outside of the
application using an external SMTP provider. Any plugin out there which
will do this for us? I would like to explore before we go all out &
write our own.

aj

thank you all for your suggestions. Instead of creating another queuing
solution for email, i went back to default sendmail to send email &
configured sendmail to use an external authenticated SMTP server to
relay the email.

http://www.phinesolutions.com/sendmail-gmail-smtp-relay-howto.html

Thanks

AJ

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I used Spawn (http://blog.sidu.in/2008/06/spawn-reliable-background-
processing.html) really easy to setup. Don’t expect any great
control though.