# Manually start mail processes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manually-start-mail-processes/122230>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 5, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manually-start-mail-processes/122230 "2007-12-05T19:46:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![d2kagw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@d2kagw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d2kagw)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manually-start-mail-processes/122230/1 "2007-12-05T19:46:15Z")

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A few days ago my ruby mail processes died after the partition where  
the app lives filled up and the mysql connection was lost. I don’t  
want to reboot the server during business hours, so how can I manually  
invoke the mailer processes?

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**Author:** ![d2kagw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@d2kagw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/d2kagw)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/manually-start-mail-processes/122230/2 "2007-12-05T19:47:26Z")

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Also of note, daemons.yml is under /config, my mailer.rb & mailer\_ctl  
files are under lib/daemons.