# Any plugin to send email asyncronously in the background **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 20, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991 "2009-04-20T19:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ajay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991/1 "2009-04-20T19:02:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ajay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991/2 "2009-04-20T19:35:15Z")
delayed\_job [0] is a nice plugin to do things in the background. mx. [0] [http://github.com/tobi/delayed\_job/tree/master](http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job/tree/master) On Apr 20, 7:02 pm, Ajaya A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ajay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991/3 "2009-04-20T20:05:14Z")
On Apr 20, 6:02 pm, Ajaya A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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 ---
**Author:** ![ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ajay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991/4 "2009-04-20T21:39:27Z")
On 20 Apr., 19:02, Ajaya A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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](http://railscasts.com/episodes/129-custom-daemon) Making your own daemon to run in the background is surprisingly easy. – Best regards, David K. [http://twitter.com/perplect](http://twitter.com/perplect) ---
**Author:** ![ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ajay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991/5 "2009-04-20T22:27:57Z")
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](http://www.phinesolutions.com/sendmail-gmail-smtp-relay-howto.html) Thanks AJ ---
**Author:** ![ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@ajay](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ajay)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/any-plugin-to-send-email-asyncronously-in-the-background/165991/6 "2009-04-20T22:30:28Z")
I used Spawn ([http://blog.sidu.in/2008/06/spawn-reliable-background-](http://blog.sidu.in/2008/06/spawn-reliable-background-) processing.html) _really_ easy to setup. Don’t expect any great control though.